Summary
The remote host is missing an update to lv
announced via advisory DSA 304-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20304-1
Insight
Leonard Stiles discovered that lv, a multilingual file viewer, would read options from a configuration file in the current directory.
Because such a file could be placed there by a malicious user, and lv configuration options can be used to execute commands, this represented a security vulnerability. An attacker could gain the privileges of the user invoking lv, including root.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.49.4-7woody2.
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 4.49.3-4potato2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version 4.49.5-2.
We recommend that you update your lv package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0188 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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