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Debian Security Advisory DSA 256-1 (mhc)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

1.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to mhc announced via advisory DSA 256-1.

Insight

Insight

It has been discovered that adb2mhc from the mhc-utils package. The default temporary directory uses a predictable name. This adds a vulnerability that allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files the users has write permissions for. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.25+20010625-7.1. For the old stable distribution (potato) does not contain mhc packages. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.25+20030224-1. We recommend that you upgrade your mhc-utils packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20256-1

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