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Debian Security Advisory DSA 325-1 (eldav)

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 eldav announced via advisory DSA 325-1.

Insight

Insight

eldav, a WebDAV client for Emacs, creates temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs and eldav. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20020411-1woody1. The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain an eldav package. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.2-1. We recommend that you update your eldav package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20325-1

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