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Debian Security Advisory DSA 681-1 (synaesthesia)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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 synaesthesia announced via advisory DSA 681-1.

Insight

Insight

Erik Sjölund and Devin Carraway discovered that synaesthesia, a program for representing sounds visually, accesses user-controlled configuration and mixer files with elevated privileges. Thus, it is possible to read arbitrary files. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1-2.1woody3. For the testing (sarge) and unstable (sid) distribution this problem does not exist since synaesthesia is not installed setuid root anymore. We recommend that you upgrade your synaesthesia package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20681-1

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