Debian Security Advisory DSA 011-1 (mgetty)

The remote host is missing an update to mgetty announced via advisory DSA 011-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb0111.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 011-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

Debian DSA-011-2 : mgetty - insecure tempfile handling

Immunix reports that mgetty does not create temporary files in a secure manner, which could lead to a symlink attack. This has been corrected in mgetty 1.1.21-3potato1 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

[SECURITY] [DSA-011-1] New version of mgetty released

Package: mgetty Vulnerability: insecure tempfile Debian-specific: no Immunix reports that mgetty does not create temporary files in a secure manner, which could lead to a symlink attack. This has been corrected in mgetty 1.1.21-3potato1 We recommend you upgrade your mgetty package immediately. wg...