Debian: noweb insecure tmp file vulnerability
Summary
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
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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:
Size/MD5 checksum: 597 137a3145bc50159f0b9abd217d9f2f62
Size/MD5 checksum: 69048 a77cc9e502d6e891c6aa74df7b0c9fe5
Size/MD5 checksum: 687372 1096b16aaa281a97e269eb5d80236296
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1327308 10b065044f506c8c548bb6e2c76c5fec
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 976072 ffa9f84860085bfda89791c79867d3fd
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 607 ac68c7e4f9057d9b5a38238c28f7d266
Size/MD5 checksum: 41136 122211b0a7590e7cdc21aaa9a890d082
Size/MD5 checksum: 687372 1096b16aaa281a97e269eb5d80236296
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1339532 6f3f10aa4a5056d003c91b3f4564871c
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1061418 6ca2d4bd8026333006c2566f918f12ca
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 966664 b4a1b216e98e3dda4bd62eb37618f1ca
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1257458 4d13eb89c7cf9ba72ab0a30e4d5cb7ab
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 920562 110bd24b5abaa99d2633121b8b103825
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1145274 7dbf6bdbe25c08f94984fbf9b5e2979f
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its
next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show