Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libdbi-perl announced via advisory DSA 658-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20658-1
Insight
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates a tmporary PID file in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person executing the parts of the library.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.21-2woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.46-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your libdbi-perl package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-0077 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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