FreeBSD : uim -- privilege escalation vulnerability (1e606080-3293-11da-ac91-020039488e34)

high Nessus Plugin ID 21395

Synopsis

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

Description

The uim developers reports :

Masanari Yamamoto discovered that incorrect use of environment variables in uim. This bug causes privilege escalation if setuid/setgid applications was linked to libuim.

This bug appears in 'immodule for Qt' enabled Qt. (Normal Qt is also safe.) In some distribution, mlterm is also an setuid/setgid application.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/uim/2005-September/001346.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?20397a59

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 21395

File Name: freebsd_pkg_1e606080329311daac91020039488e34.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-uim, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2005