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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53189
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-500)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'flim' package(s) announced via the DSA-500 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'flim' package(s) announced via the DSA-500 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered a vulnerability in flim, an emacs library for working with internet messages, where temporary files were created without taking appropriate precautions. This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by a local user to overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.3-9woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your flim package.

Affected Software/OS:
'flim' package(s) on Debian 3.0.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
2.1

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0422
Debian Security Information: DSA-500 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-500
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-344.html
XForce ISS Database: flim-insecure-temporary-file(16027)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16027
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