Executive Summary

Summary
Title New tkmail packages fix insecure temporary file creation
Informations
Name DSA-172 First vendor Publication 2002-10-08
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2002-10-08
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-172

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 172-1 (tkmail)
File : nvt/deb_172_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
14506 TkMail Temp File Symlink Arbitrary File Manipulation

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-09-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-172.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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