Debian: New ipmenu packages fix insecure temporary file creation
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 907-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 23rd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : ipmenu Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2004-2569 BugTraq ID : 10269 Debian Bug : 244709 Akira Yoshiyama noticed that ipmenu, an cursel iptables/iproute2 GUI, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files utilising a symlink attack. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.3-4woody1 The stable distribution (sarge) does not contain the ipmenu package. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.3-5. We recommend that you upgrade your ipmenu 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: 561 89c838a80091dd0f86b8fa3455edf519 Size/MD5 checksum: 2307 0ba4d3b6153ea509c9d4617f98ae3893 Size/MD5 checksum: 27078 e8c5de8c6d8ec97760c1a9d39d90fb18 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 23150 85df22e0cb86e28f3a57ed2687d7b863 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