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Debian Security Advisory DSA 302-1 (fuzz)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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 fuzz announced via advisory DSA 302-1.

Insight

Insight

Joey Hess discovered that fuzz, a software stress-testing tool, creates a temporary file without taking appropriate security precautions. This bug could allow an attacker to gain the privileges of the user invoking fuzz, excluding root (fuzz does not allow itself to be invoked as root). For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6-6woody1. The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain a fuzz package. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you update your fuzz package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20302-1

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