Summary
The remote host is missing an update to noweb
announced via advisory DSA 323-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20323-1
Insight
Jakob Lell discovered a bug in the 'noroff' script included in noweb whereby a temporary file was created insecurely. During a review, several other instances of this problem were found and fixed. Any of these bugs could be exploited by a local user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user invoking the script.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.9a-7.3.
For old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9a-5.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your noweb package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0381 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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