- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 192-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 6th, 2002 ://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : html2ps Vulnerability : arbitrary code execution Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no The security update from DSA 192-1 contained a syntax error which is now fixed. For completeness we include the text of the old advisory: The SuSE Security Team found a vulnerability in html2ps, a HTML to PostScript converter, that opened files based on unsanitized input insecurely. This problem can be exploited when html2ps is installed as filter within lrpng and the attacker has previously gained access to the lp account. This problem has been fixed in version 1.0b3-1.2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 1.0b1-8.2 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 1.0b3-3 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your html2ps package. 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/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b1-8.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 532 a95c08f237b3ae51f0f16e86b16b8d4b http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b1-8.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 35618 63878fa43db620e918b4bc27a217f79f http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b1.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 107435 00fb5ac8c3769473b53ec4ad20e9b7cb Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b1-8.2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 134772 f5df85ec5e0a8113ae5f9bc31a324142 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b3-1.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 532 d340b5eba901049f512ff77fac127b3e http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b3-1.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 38215 1876826cf5be35f56f1c4c417b45fc48 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b3.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 121826 984eff60249bcf2d6ce871e32acefb9a Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b3-1.2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 146438 ee707e980052c595a6a778f65ceafa57 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: [email protected] Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>; - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 202-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 6th, 2002 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : im Vulnerability : temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no Despite popular belief, the IM packages are not architecture independent, since the number of the fsync syscal is detected on build time and this number differs on Linux architectures and other operating systems. As a result of this the optional feature ``NoSync=no'' does only work on the architecture the package was built on. As usual, we are including the text of the original advisory DSA 202-1: Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that IM, which contains interface commands and Perl libraries for E-mail and NetNews, creates temporary files insecurely. 1. The impwagent program creates a temporary directory in an insecure manner in /tmp using predictable directory names without checking the return code of mkdir, so it's possible to seize a permission of the temporary directory by local access as another user. 2. The immknmz program creates a temporary file in an insecure manner in /tmp using a predictable filename, so an attacker with local access can easily create and overwrite files as another user. This problem has been fixed in version 141-18.2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 133-2.3 of the old stable distribution (potato). A correection is expected for the unstable distribution (sid) soon. We recommend that you upgrade your IM package. 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/i/im/im_133-2.3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 513 65dd0bbcb7d00d664368fcf9738ba615 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/im/im_133-2.3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 7521 954b2f8f55ae7f62683c240322348609 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/im/im_133.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 205055 df14f9a251a8d47fc045b6303090be47 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/im/im_133-2.3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 218056 85f7e256fa243204c4797bed622da192 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/im/im_141-18.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 568 27c54961223aac6c3ad0e9ac8bec2210 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/im/im_141-18.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 14706 03fcab14b6ceab8d3f586ded82fd7fe7 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/im/im_141.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 207576 9ecd2d6009048f1fecbc7b2e0e8cd489 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/im/im_141-18.2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 217680 af681b5b5d149adf134471b1dcb37ad7 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: [email protected] Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>;
Debian GNU/Linux Advisories: html2ps, im
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