Debian Security Advisory DSA 022-1 alerts of exmh program vulnerability due to the misuse of /tmp for storing temporary files, allowing a symlink attack
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 6 |
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![]() | CVE-2001-0125 | 7 May 200104:00 | – | cvelist |
![]() | Debian Security Advisory DSA 022-1 (exmh) | 17 Jan 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | CVE-2001-0125 | 12 Mar 200105:00 | – | nvd |
![]() | CVE-2001-0125 | 7 May 200104:00 | – | cve |
![]() | Debian DSA-022-1 : exmh - local insecure tempfile creation | 29 Sep 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : exmh (MDKSA-2001:015) | 6 Sep 201200:00 | – | nessus |
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secure1 | www.secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53785");
script_cve_id("CVE-2001-0125");
script_version("2023-07-19T05:05:15+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-19 05:05:15 +0000 (Wed, 19 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 14:24:38 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"1.2");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 022-1 (exmh)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 E-Soft Inc.");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB2\.2");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20022-1");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Former versions of the exmh program used /tmp for storing temporary
files. No checks were made to ensure that nobody placed a symlink
with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to
a symlink attack. This could lead to a malicious local user being
able to overwrite any file writable by the user executing exmh.
Upstream developers have reported and fixed this. The exmh program
now use /tmp/login now unless TMPDIR or EXMHTMPDIR is set.
We recommend you upgrade your exmh packages immediately.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to exmh
announced via advisory DSA 022-1.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"exmh", ver:"2.1.1-1.1", rls:"DEB2.2")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
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