Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53591
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-260)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'file' package(s) announced via the DSA-260 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'file' package(s) announced via the DSA-260 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: iDEFENSE discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ELF format parsing of the 'file' command, one which can be used to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the command. The vulnerability can be exploited by crafting a special ELF binary which is then input to file. This could be accomplished by leaving the binary on the file system and waiting for someone to use file to identify it, or by passing it to a service that uses file to classify input. (For example, some printer filters run file to determine how to process input going to a printer.) Fixed packages are available in version 3.28-1.potato.1 for Debian 2.2 (potato) and version 3.37-3.1.woody.1 for Debian 3.0 (woody). We recommend you upgrade your file package immediately. Affected Software/OS: 'file' package(s) on Debian 3.0. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 4.6 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0102 BugTraq ID: 7008 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7008 Bugtraq: 20030304 [OpenPKG-SA-2003.017] OpenPKG Security Advisory (file) (Google Search) Bugtraq: 20030304 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 03.04.03: Locally Exploitable Buffer Overflow in file(1) (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104680706201721&w=2 CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#611865 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/611865 Debian Security Information: DSA-260 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-260 Immunix Linux Advisory: IMNX-2003-7+-012-01 http://lwn.net/Alerts/34908/ http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:030 http://www.idefense.com/advisory/03.04.03.txt NETBSD Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2003-003 ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2003-003.txt.asc http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-086.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-087.html SuSE Security Announcement: SuSE-SA:2003:017 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_017_file.html XForce ISS Database: file-afctr-read-bo(11469) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11469
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