Debian: New thttpd packages fix insecure temporary file
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 883-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 4th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : thttpd Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3124 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit team discovered that the syslogtocern script from thttpd, a tiny webserver, uses a temporary file insecurely, allowing a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.21b-11.3. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.23beta1-3sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.23beta1-4. We recommend that you upgrade your thttpd 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. 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