Debian DSA-839-1 : apachetop - insecure temporary file

low Nessus Plugin ID 19808

Synopsis

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

Description

Eric Romang discovered an insecurely created temporary file in apachetop, a realtime monitoring tool for the Apache webserver that could be exploited with a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files with the user id that runs apachetop.

Solution

Upgrade the apachetop package.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5-1sarge1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-839

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 19808

File Name: debian_DSA-839.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apachetop, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2660

DSA: 839