Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6939 - Unspecified vulnerability in GNU ED 0.2
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
GNU ed before 0.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, possibly in the open_sbuf function.
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2007-100.NASL description - Thu Jan 18 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-0.fc6 - rebuild for FC-6, fixes CVE-2006-6939 - Thu Jan 18 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-2 - fix man page permissions (#222581) - Mon Nov 13 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-1 - update to ed-0.3 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 24231 published 2007-01-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24231 title Fedora Core 6 : ed-0.3-0.fc6 (2007-100) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2007-100. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(24231); script_version ("1.15"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:25"); script_cve_id("CVE-2006-6939"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-100"); script_name(english:"Fedora Core 6 : ed-0.3-0.fc6 (2007-100)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: " - Thu Jan 18 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-0.fc6 - rebuild for FC-6, fixes CVE-2006-6939 - Thu Jan 18 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-2 - fix man page permissions (#222581) - Mon Nov 13 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-1 - update to ed-0.3 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2007-January/001287.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7c81724c" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected ed and / or ed-debuginfo packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ed"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ed-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/01/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/01/19"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 6.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC6", reference:"ed-0.3-0.fc6")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"FC6", reference:"ed-debuginfo-0.3-0.fc6")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "ed / ed-debuginfo"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2007-099.NASL description - Thu Jan 18 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-0.fc6 - rebuild for FC-6, fixes CVE-2006-6939 - Thu Jan 18 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-2 - fix man page permissions (#222581) - Mon Nov 13 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-1 - update to ed-0.3 - Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 0.2-38.2.2 - rebuild Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 24230 published 2007-01-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24230 title Fedora Core 5 : ed-0.3-0.fc5 (2007-099) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2007-099. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(24230); script_version ("1.13"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:25"); script_cve_id("CVE-2006-6939"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-099"); script_name(english:"Fedora Core 5 : ed-0.3-0.fc5 (2007-099)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: " - Thu Jan 18 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-0.fc6 - rebuild for FC-6, fixes CVE-2006-6939 - Thu Jan 18 2007 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-2 - fix man page permissions (#222581) - Mon Nov 13 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> 0.3-1 - update to ed-0.3 - Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 0.2-38.2.2 - rebuild Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2007-January/001286.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?da1818d9" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected ed and / or ed-debuginfo packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ed"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ed-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/01/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/01/19"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 5.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"ed-0.3-0.fc5")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"ed-debuginfo-0.3-0.fc5")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "ed / ed-debuginfo"); }
Statements
contributor | Mark J Cox |
lastmodified | 2007-01-18 |
organization | Red Hat |
statement | Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223072 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. |
References
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2449
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2450
- http://freshmeat.net/projects/ed/?branch_id=17855&release_id=240890
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23832
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23848
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23857
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24054
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:023
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22129
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0005
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4573
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30374
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-962