Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200504-20.
Solution
All openMosixview users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
'>=sys-cluster/openmosixview-1.5-r1'
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200504-20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86686
Insight
openMosixview and the openMosixcollector daemon are vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-0894 -
CVSS Base Score: 3.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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