Summary
The remote host is missing an update to bmv
announced via advisory DSA 633-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20633-1
Insight
Peter Samuelson, upstream maintainer of bmv, a PostScript viewer for SVGAlib, discovered that temporary files are created in an insecure fashion. A malicious local user could cause arbitrary files to be overwritten by a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-14.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-17.
We recommend that you upgrade your bmv packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0014 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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