Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New uim packages fix privilege escalation |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-895 | First vendor Publication | 2005-11-14 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2005-11-14 |
| 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
| 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. 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. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-895 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-09-24 | Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200510-03 (uim) File : nvt/glsa_200510_03.nasl |
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 895-1 (uim) File : nvt/deb_895_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 19741 | UIM Isnt Mock-up libuim Local Privilege Escalation |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2006-10-14 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-895.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2006-01-15 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-198.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-10-05 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-200510-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:34:38 |
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