Debian Security Advisory: New version of exmh released

Jan 26, 2001, 21:07 (0 Talkback[s])

Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:29:01 -0800
From: debian-security-announce@LISTS.DEBIAN.ORG
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 022-1] New version of exmh released

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-022-1                                      security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                                   Martin Schulze 
January 26, 2001

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Package        : exmh
Vulnerability  : local insecure tempfile creation
Debian-specific: no

Former versions of the exmh program used /tmp for storing temporary files. No checks were made to ensure that nobody placed a symlink with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to a symlink attack. This could lead to a malicious local user being able to overwrite any file writable by the user executing exmh. Upstream developers have reported and fixed this. The exmh program now use /tmp/login now unless TMPDIR or EXMHTMPDIR is set.

We recommend you upgrade your exmh packages immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

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Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc architectures. This package does not contain any architecture dependent data (i.e. no compiled programs).

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/exmh_2.1.1-1.1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: 67cd5c52498b1dc120b608b151cbd44c
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/exmh_2.1.1-1.1.dsc MD5 checksum: 36f91fba778ff68881adb4022ae99403
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/exmh_2.1.1.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: f3c6eedfa5720e236389e22234a57c24

Architecture independent:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/exmh_2.1.1-1.1_all.deb MD5 checksum: 326c6374703977be603579435d328cf8

These files will be moved into ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
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Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>