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Debian DSA-675-1 : hztty - privilege escalation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 16365

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Erik Sjolund discovered that hztty, a converter for GB, Big5 and zW/HZ Chinese encodings in a tty session, can be triggered to execute arbitrary commands with group utmp privileges.

Solution

Upgrade the hztty package.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-5.2woody2.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-675

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 16365

File Name: debian_DSA-675.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/10/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:hztty, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0019

DSA: 675