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Debian DSA-1269-1 : lookup-el - insecure temporary file

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24865

Synopsis

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

Description

Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that Lookup, a search interface to electronic dictionaries on emacsen, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion when the ndeb-binary feature is used, which allows a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.

Solution

Upgrade the lookup-el package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-3sarge1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1269

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24865

File Name: debian_DSA-1269.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/19/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lookup-el, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0237

DSA: 1269