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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51046 |
Category: | Red Hat Local Security Checks |
Title: | RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2004:344 |
Summary: | NOSUMMARY |
Description: | Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2004:344. The semi package includes a MIME library for GNU Emacs and XEmacs used by the wl mail package. Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered a vulnerability in flim, an emacs library for working with Internet messages included in the semi package. Temporary files were being created without taking adequate precautions, and therefore a local user could potentially overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0422 to this issue. Users of semi are advised to upgrade to these packages, which contain a backported patch fixing this issue. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-344.html http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-500 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 2.1 |
Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0422 Debian Security Information: DSA-500 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-500 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-344.html XForce ISS Database: flim-insecure-temporary-file(16027) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16027 |
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