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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55873
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-895-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'uim' package(s) announced via the DSA-895-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'uim' package(s) announced via the DSA-895-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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 packages.

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.

Affected Software/OS:
'uim' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

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-2005-3149
BugTraq ID: 15007
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15007
Debian Security Information: DSA-895 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-895
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-03.xml
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001347.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001346.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015002
http://secunia.com/advisories/17043
http://secunia.com/advisories/17058
http://secunia.com/advisories/17572
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1946
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1947
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