Debian DSA-897-1 : phpsysinfo - programming errors

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22763

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpsysinfo, a PHP based host information application. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2005-0870 Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered several cross site scripting problems, of which not all were fixed in DSA 724.

- CVE-2005-3347 Christopher Kunz discovered that local variables get overwritten unconditionally and are trusted later, which could lead to the inclusion of arbitrary files.

- CVE-2005-3348 Christopher Kunz discovered that user-supplied input is used unsanitised, causing a HTTP Response splitting problem.

Solution

Upgrade the phpsysinfo package.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0-3woody3.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.3-4sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301118

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-897

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22763

File Name: debian_DSA-897.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpsysinfo, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0870, CVE-2005-3347, CVE-2005-3348

CWE: 22, 352

DSA: 897