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Debian DSA-1501-1 : dspam - programming error

low Nessus Plugin ID 31145

Synopsis

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

Description

Tobias Grutzmacher discovered that a Debian-provided CRON script in dspam, a statistical spam filter, included a database password on the command line. This allowed a local attacker to read the contents of the dspam database, such as emails.

Solution

Upgrade the dspam package.

The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain the dspam package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.8-5etch1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448519

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1501

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 31145

File Name: debian_DSA-1501.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2008

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dspam

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6418

CWE: 200

DSA: 1501