From joey@infodrom.org Mon Nov 8 20:03:35 2004 From: Martin Schulze Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:35:12 +0100 (CET) Reply-To: listadmin@securityfocus.com Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 588-1] New gzip packages fix insecure temporary files -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 588-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 8th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : gzip Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0970 BugTraq ID : 11288 Trustix developers discovered insecure temporary file creation in supplemental scripts in the gzip package which may allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.2-3woody3. The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected by these problems. We recommend that you upgrade your gzip 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/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 577 3b5fd05de61de0a41973facf1edc6692 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 6371 cdb2a28b380ba84bae2c652eb156ca5a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 311011 57bff96b6b4bcbb060566bdbed29485d Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 76456 3b8b2991a66b675198febc281ca59e84 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 68776 c049ef9bec9ac21c99c1f7eefc6ceb2e Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 62076 536b666d29bcc648a1f105b3e5ef0708 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 86840 dd973820227968197c4da091db22bf18 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 72594 70eb93310c314cd923091c93e0eded97 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 61278 a47c8230f4f721e2a1adc6545aa25198 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 71762 68707f5373f065430d43cd2700902b60 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 71660 50646d0590343e2b90dc9f32fade4d54 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 69280 9f49c09ec45ae1d4135e384e94914b72 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 66726 c2a0ca55f66fa0a6631756fc68d14b8d Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.2-3woody3_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 70298 88378dc40c8e762b97da5a16058190af These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBj5IwW5ql+IAeqTIRAoYJAJ41JFb6u0yuf2fomIzGcYNNPgrkIACgmfz/ ljBz6K9A7PBxJLYAzXHFUbc= =L+Am -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----