Summary
The remote host is missing an update to jailer
announced via advisory DSA 1674-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201674-1
Insight
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that updatejail, a component of the chroot maintenance tool Jailer, creates a predictable temporary file name, which may lead to local denial of service through a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4-9+etch1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4-10.
We recommend that you upgrade your jailer package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-5139 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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