Debian: New jailer packages fix denial of service
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1674-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff November 30, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : jailer Vulnerability : insecure temp file generation Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-5139 Debian Bug : 410548 Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that updatejail, a component of the chroot maintenance tool Jailer, creates a predictable temporary file name, which may lead to local denial of service through a symlink attack. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4-9+etch1. For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4-10. We recommend that you upgrade your jailer 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 - -------------------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 27372 403ad34e153f4dbc14621b2bca464487 Size/MD5 checksum: 27920 a6bead6286022c54e73bfe1f51e5e5f3 Size/MD5 checksum: 599 2a59c032c5da19b3443c0bd5c573a6e6 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 11688 8e042e660665df9b8657399ec3845cc8 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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