5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
40.9%
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that langen2kvhtml from the kvoctrain package from the kdeedu suite creates temporary files in an insecure fashion. This leaves them open for symlink attacks.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-818. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(19787);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2101");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"818");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-818-1 : kdeedu - insecure temporary files");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that langen2kvhtml from
the kvoctrain package from the kdeedu suite creates temporary files in
an insecure fashion. This leaves them open for symlink attacks."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-818"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the kvoctrain package.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by these problems.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.3.2-3.sarge.1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdeedu");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/09/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/10/05");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kalzium", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kbruch", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kdeedu", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kdeedu-data", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kdeedu-doc-html", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"keduca", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"khangman", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kig", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kiten", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"klatin", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"klettres", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"klettres-data", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kmessedwords", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kmplot", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kpercentage", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kstars", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kstars-data", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"ktouch", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kturtle", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kverbos", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kvoctrain", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kwordquiz", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libkdeedu-dev", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libkdeedu1", reference:"3.3.2-3.sarge.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | kdeedu | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdeedu |
debian | debian_linux | 3.1 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1 |