Debian alert: New tkmail packages fix insecure temporary file creation
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 172-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 8th, 2002 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : tkmail Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no It has been discovered that tkmail creates temporary files insecurely. Exploiting this an attacker with local access can easily create and overwrite files as another user. This problem has been fixed in version 4.0beta9-8.1 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 4.0beta9-4.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 4.0beta9-9 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your tkmail packages. 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 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 568 61426095674836c7e1f5a9cea9261222 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 93134 872788cd23d7a3e12fc64a164d57d1da http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 264219 eade4a27565d159080cbaa0b73d27ae0 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 225608 6c0e39cad8ef8a9e59ac5dfc8dbc9865 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 208538 0f3717e650b5289b8221e819d623a505 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 206376 f7ab8ba0b5c0f569f40063a32cbe91ed Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 202328 5a8a574098345feffd39a6ed398d728e PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 210386 f5be4d907367adc70d2646922514198d Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 212170 8a65743306d20b564f0b087ea95f63fc Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 578 0a2951b292fd265cd59eec8cb632a3b8 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 61394 9ea83f1086ebe432430264a1fa206b9a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 264219 eade4a27565d159080cbaa0b73d27ae0 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 223450 c052579b2cee968909bc10dfc8cc4d1e ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 208496 21cf07e457a653a92e42679f1fda203e Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 206350 55f58c223e5fd47b5eaac3912c2caab9 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 241806 ea5e1917cf0d8242aa58d30a4135966b HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 216926 5fd662cd9ad0e1ae70824654aa7042e8 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 201662 0609e9e8b1ac84bee25a671e839efbed Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 215310 2909e42fd4f2895297f901f4f9b494c6 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 215572 ebf8d34e8840e72ca29144dbd9d92818 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 211486 17187753cf81810e7af9c1bd5b2b868b IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 208348 eaffa6d4831efd74ff97bb805ddeeb57 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 215600 3eec99aff80c9e1ae8a5513c5ce25077 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ouSbW5ql+IAeqTIRAgorAJ4+X5EEfXmblPnbSEUijbEAEB54RgCfQxhM K/Ye/XKF2GrvvRq0oay5OtU= =ZF0G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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