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Debian DSA-1945-1 : gforge - symlink attack

low Nessus Plugin ID 44810

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Synopsis

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

Description

Sylvain Beucler discovered that gforge, a collaborative development tool, is prone to a symlink attack, which allows local users to perform a denial of service attack by overwriting arbitrary files.

The oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch13.

Solution

Upgrade the gforge packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.7~rc2-7lenny3.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1945

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 44810

File Name: debian_DSA-1945.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gforge, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3304

CWE: 59

DSA: 1945