Debian DSA-999-1 : lurker - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22865

Synopsis

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

Description

Several security related problems have been discovered in lurker, an archive tool for mailing lists with integrated search engine. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2006-1062 Lurker's mechanism for specifying configuration files was vulnerable to being overridden. As lurker includes sections of unparsed config files in its output, an attacker could manipulate lurker into reading any file readable by the www-data user.

- CVE-2006-1063 It is possible for a remote attacker to create or overwrite files in any writable directory that is named 'mbox'.

- CVE-2006-1064 Missing input sanitising allows an attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Solution

Upgrade the lurker package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain lurker packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.2-5sarge1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22865

File Name: debian_DSA-999.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1062, CVE-2006-1063, CVE-2006-1064

DSA: 999

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