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Debian Security Advisory DSA 172-1 (tkmail)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

2.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to tkmail announced via advisory DSA 172-1.

Insight

Insight

It has been discovered that tkmail creates temporary files insecurely. Exploiting this an attacker with local access can easily create and overwrite files as another user. This problem has been fixed in version 4.0beta9-8.1 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 4.0beta9-4.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 4.0beta9-9 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your tkmail packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20172-1

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