Summary
The remote host is missing an update to eldav
announced via advisory DSA 325-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20325-1
Insight
eldav, a WebDAV client for Emacs, creates temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs and eldav.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20020411-1woody1.
The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain an eldav package.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.2-1.
We recommend that you update your eldav package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0438 -
CVSS Base Score: 1.2
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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