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Debian DSA-691-1 : abuse - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17286

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in abuse, the SDL port of the Abuse action game. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CAN-2005-0098 Erik Sjolund discovered several buffer overflows in the command line handling, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges since it is installed setuid root.

 - CAN-2005-0099

 Steve Kemp discovered that abuse creates some files without dropping privileges first, which may lead to the creation and overwriting of arbitrary files.

Solution

Upgrade the abuse package.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.00+-3woody4.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-691

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17286

File Name: debian_DSA-691.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/8/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0098, CVE-2005-0099

DSA: 691