Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200804-29 (comix)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200804-29. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

CVE-2008-1796

CVE-2008-1796 affects Comix 3.6.4 and earlier, where temporary directories are created with predictable names, enabling a local user to cause a denial of service. The issue is described in multiple sources (e.g., GLSA 200804-29) as a local DoS due to predictable directory names. Affected package ...