Debian: New gforge packages fix insecure temporary files
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1577-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst May 14, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : gforge Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0167 Stephen Gran and Mark Hymers discovered that some scripts run by GForge, a collaborative development tool, open files in write mode in a potentially insecure manner. This may be exploited to overwrite arbitary files on the local system. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch8. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your gforge 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 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 950 b920bc8243418bf618256638369bc4cd Size/MD5 checksum: 2161141 e85f82eff84ee073f80a2a52dd32c8a5 Size/MD5 checksum: 198227 d2fa0c2fcd092cca4b06fa58c852bacc Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 88632 653a57ad16301d4c56dd6258c7899bf3 Size/MD5 checksum: 704846 40d23715b91b68be2818f3cd40fcd69f Size/MD5 checksum: 76104 b9536b17b890cb1e9c01774799a2b7a7 Size/MD5 checksum: 80300 14cb35a87fcd66ec653f2f195f1257ba Size/MD5 checksum: 88530 949dba8de49b5294a6c1607c0e0867a9 Size/MD5 checksum: 86364 e5b31d0d6241fc49af69fa18a43ca5cb Size/MD5 checksum: 87170 4c43a30b39c833c6459bebf65efa3ffd Size/MD5 checksum: 1010898 6834ceb2ad8bec97dec9885f5d67a142 Size/MD5 checksum: 212528 aa2271a99ae166fda40c1dac6e866548 Size/MD5 checksum: 86070 5dc7c68b4c4d9a42809836405b85a240 Size/MD5 checksum: 89146 ca4c0ca3f759fac3419e9523ec7772a2 Size/MD5 checksum: 82106 706a78d1a7d86304890844b61988b580 Size/MD5 checksum: 95576 a2bba36bc643f1adf1950574fa38ff1d Size/MD5 checksum: 103780 666082ac03c7edecc48fce7072890654 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
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