FreeBSD : uim -- privilege escalation vulnerability (fb03b1c6-8a8a-11d9-81f7-02023f003c9f)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19183

Synopsis

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

Description

The uim developers reports :

Takumi ASAKI discovered that uim always trusts environment variables.
But this is not correct behavior, sometimes environment variables shouldn't be trusted. This bug causes privilege escalation when libuim is linked against setuid/setgid application. Since GTK+ prohibits setuid/setgid applications, the bug appears only in 'immodule for Qt' enabled Qt. (Normal Qt is also safe.)

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19183

File Name: freebsd_pkg_fb03b1c68a8a11d981f702023f003c9f.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

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:freebsd:freebsd:ja-uim, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0503

BID: 12604

Secunia: 13981

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