Debian Security Advisory DSA 462-1 (xitalk)

The remote host is missing an update to xitalk announced via advisory DSA 462-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb4621.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 462-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-462)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian DSA-462-1 : xitalk - missing privilege release

Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in xitalk, a talk intercept utility for the X Window System. A local user can exploit this problem and execute arbitrary commands under the GID utmp. This could be used by an attacker to remove traces from the utmp file...