Debian Security Advisory DSA 1342-1 for xfs race conditio
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 46 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | RHEL 4 : xorg-x11 (RHSA-2007:0519) | 18 Jul 200700:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Oracle Linux 5 : Moderate: / xorg-x11-xfs (ELSA-2007-0520) | 12 Jul 201300:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 9 : xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-2.1.fc9 (2009-3666) | 3 Jul 200900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 5 : xorg-x11-xfs (RHSA-2007:0520) | 18 Jul 200700:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Debian DSA-1342-1 : xfs - race condition | 1 Aug 200700:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Scientific Linux Security Update : xorg-x11 on SL4.x i386/x86_64 | 1 Aug 201200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Scientific Linux Security Update : xorg-x11-xfs on SL5.x i386/x86_64 | 1 Aug 201200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CentOS 4 : xorg-x11 (CESA-2007:0519) | 18 Jul 200700:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 10 : xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.5-3.1.fc10 (2009-3651) | 3 Jul 200900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Oracle Linux 4 : xorg-x11 (ELSA-2007-0519) | 12 Jul 201300:00 | – | nessus |
# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_1342_1.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $
# Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1342-1
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2007 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largerly excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#
include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "It was discovered that a race condition in the init.d script of the X Font
Server allows the modification of file permissions of arbitrary files if
the local administrator can be tricked into restarting the X font server.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) xfs is present as part of the
monolithic xfree86 package. A fix will be provided along with a future
security update.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-6.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.4-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your xfs package.";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to xfs
announced via advisory DSA 1342-1.";
tag_solution = "https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201342-1";
if(description)
{
script_id(58514);
script_version("$Revision: 6616 $");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-07 14:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 23:19:52 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-3103");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.2");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 1342-1 (xfs)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2007 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
#
# The script code starts here
#
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"xfs", ver:"1.0.1-6", rls:"DEB4.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if (report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}
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