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Debian Security Advisory DSA 895-1 (uim)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to uim announced via advisory DSA 895-1. Masanari Yamamoto discovered incorrect use of environment variables in uim, a flexible input method collection and library, that could lead to escalated privileges in setuid/setgid applications linked to libuim. Affected in Debian is at least mlterm. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain uim packags.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.6final1-3sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.7-2. We recommend that you upgrade your libuim packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20895-1