Summary
The remote host is missing an update to pinball
announced via advisory DSA 1102-1.
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that pinball, a pinball simulator, can be tricked into loading level plugins from user-controlled directories without dropping privileges.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain this package.
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.1-3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.1-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your pinball package.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201102-1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-2196 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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