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Vendor: Debian Vendor ID: DSA 323-1 Title: New noweb packages fix insecure temporary file creation Publishing date: June 16, 2003 Published by: Nikola Strahija Other advisories by Debian: Drupal several remote vulnerabilities Kernel local race condition Mozilla-firefox several remote vulnerabilities Hiki denial of service vulnerability Mozilla several remote vulnerabilities     Printable version  |    Send to a friend   Security Advisory info: Jakob Lell discovered a bug in the 'noroff' script included in noweb whereby a temporary file was created insecurely. During a review, several other instances of this problem were found and fixed. Any of these bugs could be exploited by a local user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user invoking the script. Scroll down to see the full advisory -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 323-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman June 16th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : noweb Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id : CAN-2003-0381 Jakob Lell discovered a bug in the 'noroff' script included in noweb whereby a temporary file was created insecurely. During a review, several other instances of this problem were found and fixed. Any of these bugs could be exploited by a local user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user invoking the script. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.9a-7.3. For old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9a-5.1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you update your noweb package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-5.1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 597 137a3145bc50159f0b9abd217d9f2f62 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-5.1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 69048 a77cc9e502d6e891c6aa74df7b0c9fe5 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 687372 1096b16aaa281a97e269eb5d80236296 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-5.1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1327308 10b065044f506c8c548bb6e2c76c5fec Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-5.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 976072 ffa9f84860085bfda89791c79867d3fd Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 607 ac68c7e4f9057d9b5a38238c28f7d266 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 41136 122211b0a7590e7cdc21aaa9a890d082 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 687372 1096b16aaa281a97e269eb5d80236296 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1339532 6f3f10aa4a5056d003c91b3f4564871c ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1061418 6ca2d4bd8026333006c2566f918f12ca Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 966664 b4a1b216e98e3dda4bd62eb37618f1ca HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1257458 4d13eb89c7cf9ba72ab0a30e4d5cb7ab Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 920562 110bd24b5abaa99d2633121b8b103825 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1145274 7dbf6bdbe25c08f94984fbf9b5e2979f These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7nekArxCt0PiXR4RAhRZAJ9udxuKFSon+iJCuLgXcrKRLYbi5wCgtOKG wgC2UzSHCaULyXFXDtzDMP0= =VCnW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----     Printable version  |    Send to a friend

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