Summary
The remote host is missing an update to hztty
announced via advisory DSA 675-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20675-1
Insight
Erik Sjölund discovered that hztty, a converter for GB, Big5 and zW/HZ Chinese encodings in a tty session, can be triggered to execute arbitrary commands with group utmp privileges.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-5.2woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-6.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hztty package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-0019 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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