- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 679-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
February 14th, 2005                     http://www.debian.org/security/faq
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package        : toolchain-source
Vulnerability  : insecure temporary files
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: yes
CVE ID         : CAN-2005-0159

Sean Finney discovered several insecure temporary file uses in
toolchain-source, the GNU binutils and GCC source code and scripts.
These bugs can lead a local attacker with minimal knowledge to trick
the admin into overwriting arbitrary files via a symlink attack.  The
problems exist inside the Debian-specific tpkg-* scripts.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.0.4-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.4-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your toolchain-source 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:

          Size/MD5 checksum:      532 a40a4bd817419cc8230a708920234140
          Size/MD5 checksum: 25951549 f922410b108313705c4c32721403c93f

  Architecture independent components:

          Size/MD5 checksum: 25962880 043b5163799735aa36cd163e86f26cfd


  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:  dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org