FreeBSD Ports: ko-helvis

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. VID 0cf3480d-5fdf-11d9-b721-00065be4b5b6 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from vuxml or freebsd advisories Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc...

CVE-2005-0120

CVE-2005-0120 affects helvis

helvis -- arbitrary file deletion problem

The setuid root elvprsv utility, used to preserve recovery helvis files, can be abused by local users to delete with root privileges. The problem is that elvprsv deletes files when it thinks they have become corrupt. When elvprsv is pointed to a normal file then it will almost always think the fi...