Summary
The remote host is missing an update to sympa
announced via advisory DSA 677-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20677-1
Insight
Erik Sjölund discovered that a support script of sympa, a mailing list manager, is running setuid sympa and vulnerable to a buffer overflow.
This could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code under the sympa user id.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.3-3woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your sympa package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-0073 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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