Summary
The remote host is missing an update to antiword
announced via advisory DSA 945-1.
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that two scripts in antiword, utilities to convert Word files to text and Postscript, create a temporary file in an insecure fashion.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.32-2woody0.
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.35-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.35-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your antiword package.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20945-1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-3126 -
CVSS Base Score: 1.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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