Summary
The remote host is missing an update to cscope
announced via advisory DSA 610-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20610-1
Insight
A vulnerability has been discovered in cscope, a program to interactively examine C source code, which may allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 15.3-1woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 15.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your cscope package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2004-0996 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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