From debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Sat May 1 23:43:34 2004 From: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 19:10:30 -0700 Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 500-1] New flim packages fix insecure temporary file creation -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 500-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman May 1st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : flim Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0422 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. the 'chroot' option. 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. 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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3-9woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 576 e355dde8fc5dfb1b6b86504ad98ecb3f http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3-9woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 8044 71ee1b83fab4c323625b1dbd34a84497 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 165844 5931a530506e944f0605aeb022b5b97c Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3-9woody1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 156874 525f828cc8022e80601cb5c67d10b482 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 ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAlFiAArxCt0PiXR4RAt+qAKCFmqhuQR2NGUOwqmUdGzYZy2iKjgCgxfqV YEokiVKHu7dI8lp9tRgbKSY= =X7F+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html