From joey@infodrom.org Thu Oct 20 07:01:49 2005 From: Martin Schulze Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (Mailing List Manager) To: Debian Security Announcements Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:57:19 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Subject: [Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 867-1] New module-assistant package fixes insecure temporary file -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 867-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 20th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : module-assistant Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: yes CVE ID : CAN-2005-3121 Eduard Bloch discovered that a rule file in module-assistant, a tool to ease the creation of module packages, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion. It is usually executed from other packages as well. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a module-assistant package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.10. We recommend that you upgrade your module-assistant 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/module-assistant/module-assistant_0.9sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 547 8b180e18564389093ca82a9269996187 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/module-assistant/module-assistant_0.9sarge1.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 72635 3ca34cff020ac117570a1fdb05626512 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/module-assistant/module-assistant_0.9sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 71812 a793ec02a1d6a0514c7239085403a1b7 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 v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDV3gPW5ql+IAeqTIRAjz0AJ9rkzS1pMhyJhu3TzFf+lqw9uEc1ACfVZpn L4AJMrLQO1YGan/KFjLj99o= =oxEg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/