Debian GNU/Linux Advisories: semi, wemi, x-face-el

NOTE: due to a combination of administrative problems, this
advisory was erroneously released with the identifier “DSA-337-1”.
DSA-337-1 correctly refers to an earlier advisory regarding
gtksee.

semi, a MIME library for GNU Emacs, does not take appropriate
security precautions when creating temporary files. This bug could
potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user running Emacs and semi, potentially with
contents supplied by the attacker.

wemi is a fork of semi, and contains the same bug.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in semi version 1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10-1woody2 and wemi version
1.14.0.20010802wemiko-1.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed
in semi version 1.14.5+20030609-1. The unstable distribution does
not contain a wemi package.

We recommend that you update your semi and wemi packages.

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/semi/semi_1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10-1woody2.dsc

Size/MD5 checksum: 620 3949b7a3bc726a8f96b24adf5c965e37

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/semi/semi_1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10-1woody2.diff.gz

Size/MD5 checksum: 20481 abd8c72197b6fc901c454247d8750ea4

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/semi/semi_1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10.orig.tar.gz

Size/MD5 checksum: 134788 2f0dd2581b1350a0a5249bb6c8ea18f0

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wemi/wemi_1.14.0.20010802wemiko-1.3.dsc

Size/MD5 checksum: 630 a0dfbca5275f27cbf0a5849390c15a25

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wemi/wemi_1.14.0.20010802wemiko-1.3.diff.gz

Size/MD5 checksum: 29933 23b2c6e66f69683c4892d7ac16ff7337

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wemi/wemi_1.14.0.20010802wemiko.orig.tar.gz

Size/MD5 checksum: 138332 e58f2eda9401df7493584e7f064b2ed1

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/semi/semi_1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10-1woody2_all.deb

Size/MD5 checksum: 175496 73a1be04f4457ae6c92e487dc42c09d0

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wemi/wemi_1.14.0.20010802wemiko-1.3_all.deb

Size/MD5 checksum: 173030 241fc879552c26a4a8a62b9874adaab0

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

Debian Security Advisory DSA 340-1http://www.debian.org/security/July
6th, 2003

NOTE: due to a combination of administrative problems, this
advisory was erroneously released with the identifier “DSA-338-1”.
DSA-338-1 correctly refers to an earlier advisory regarding
proftpd.

x-face-el, a decoder for images included inline in X-Face email
headers, does not take appropriate security precautions when
creating temporary files. This bug could potentially be exploited
to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user
running Emacs and x-face-el, potentially with contents supplied by
the attacker.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 1.3.6.19-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed
in version 1.3.6.23-1.

We recommend that you update your x-face-el 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/x/x-face-el/x-face-el_1.3.6.19-1woody1.dsc

Size/MD5 checksum: 591 f431ba4034b534290d29103076464020

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/x-face-el/x-face-el_1.3.6.19-1woody1.diff.gz

Size/MD5 checksum: 21268 ba3e6ed17c8c03e8fab969909bcd8572

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/x-face-el/x-face-el_1.3.6.19.orig.tar.gz

Size/MD5 checksum: 80666 b541ab8e216e9df76f45b8b26241debd

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/x-face-el/x-face-el_1.3.6.19-1woody1_all.deb

Size/MD5 checksum: 101882 9773535a2bb5e0ce12c34bb0bd5b351a

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 ‘ and http://packages.debian.org/