Summary
The remote host is missing an update to sendfile
announced via advisory DSA 050-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20050-1
Insight
Colin Phipps and Daniel Kobras discovered and fixed several serious bugs in the saft daemon `sendfiled' which caused it to drop privileges incorrectly. Exploiting this a local user can easily make it execute arbitrary code under root privileges.
We recommend you upgrade your sendfile packages immediately.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2001-0623 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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