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Debian DSA-681-1 : synaesthesia - privilege escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 16457

Synopsis

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

Description

Erik Sjolund and Devin Carraway discovered that synaesthesia, a program for representing sounds visually, accesses user-controlled configuration and mixer files with elevated privileges. Thus, it is possible to read arbitrary files.

Solution

Upgrade the synaesthesia package.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1-2.1woody3.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-681

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 16457

File Name: debian_DSA-681.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0070

DSA: 681