Summary
The remote host is missing an update to pmount
announced via advisory DSA 2063-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202063-1
Insight
Dan Rosenberg discovered that pmount, a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry, creates files in /var/lock insecurely.
A local attacker could overwrite arbitrary files utilising a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.18-2+lenny1
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.23-1, and will migrate to the testing distribution (squeeze) shortly.
We recommend that you upgrade your pmount package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-2192 -
CVSS Base Score: 1.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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