Executive Summary

Summary
Title enscript creates temporary files insecurely
Informations
Name DSA-105 First vendor Publication 2002-01-21
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2002-01-21
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:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 3.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The version of enscript (a tool to convert ASCII text to different formats) has been found to create temporary files insecurely.

This has been fixed in version 1.6.2-4.1 .

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

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-105

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Os 1
Os 6

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 105-1 (enscript)
File : nvt/deb_105_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
2030 GNU Enscript Insecure Temporary File Creation

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-09-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-105.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2004-07-31 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2002-010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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