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Debian DSA-692-1 : kdenetwork - design flaw

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17299

Synopsis

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

Description

The KDE team fixed a bug in kppp in 2002 which was now discovered to be exploitable by iDEFENSE. By opening a sufficiently large number of file descriptors before executing kppp which is installed setuid root a local attacker is able to take over privileged file descriptors.

Solution

Upgrade the kppp package.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.2-14.7.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-692

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17299

File Name: debian_DSA-692.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/9/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0205

DSA: 692