Debian alert: New synaesthesia packages fix insecure file creation

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 446-1 [e-mail:security@debian.org] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman February 21st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : synaesthesia Vulnerability : insecure file creation Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0160

During an audit, Ulf Harnhammar discovered a vulnerability in synaesthesia, a program which represents sounds visually. synaesthesia created its configuration file while holding root privileges, allowing a local user to create files owned by root and writable by the user's primary group. This type of vulnerability can usually be easily exploited to execute arbitary code with root privileges by various means.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1-2.1woody1.

The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected by this problem, because synaesthesia is no longer setuid.

We recommend that you update your synaesthesia 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:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 635 ca8bc25afbb982dd10c40e5923c2e3c3 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3443 f62b934ffb45a01c0c54fa02c76ea68b http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 129209 5bc166deb369a3c71efd61e1ad5e5475

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 77836 7526ae1261ebb7c9ce6113e5e5ff0e00

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 78138 e4a4770c9cb604e1f53b7f273acef38c

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 70656 e56242f5bd2639ae8ab6eed5c0f9a4f1

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 85918 63f85dde186643f4ade2d28a8e0a9b1c

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 77528 529d8f398a586c2da550d1f6516c3dd9

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 67276 fd6dfc3edc2006c9ec5a6b7c178edbc0

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 75688 7ec5526fa01d8fd8d89e30132528e796

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 72086 8450c5664bc45e3ba415a4ae7dbfe04a

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 70246 04d89911bd4a830d10f09f67ff5215e2

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 72078 a14d6100f23836795db0f3440e8f3c64

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision.

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