Executive Summary

Summary
Title New hztty packages fix local utmp exploit
Informations
Name DSA-675 First vendor Publication 2005-02-10
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2005-02-10
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:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Erik Sjölund discovered that hztty, a converter for GB, Big5 and zW/HZ Chinese encodings in a tty session, can be triggered to execute arbitrary commands with group utmp privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-5.2woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-6.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hztty package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-675

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 675-1 (hztty)
File : nvt/deb_675_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
13705 Debian hztty Local Privilege Escalation

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2005-02-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-675.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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