Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 02:13:51 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman wichert@cistron.nl
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-008-1] dialog symlink attack
Debian Security Advisory DSA-008-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman
December 25, 2000
Package : dialog Problem type : insecure temporary files
Debian-specific: no
Matt Kraai reported that he found a problem in the way dialog
creates lock-files: it did not create them safely which made it
susceptible to a symlink attack.
This has been fixed in version 0.9a-20000118-3bis.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 78b6e69859bc18f738982d4f1bd390c7
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis.dsc
MD5 checksum: 9bd63778ae6f295d9c06d22ac5910b92
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/dialog_0.9a-20000118.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: ffa7381631cb24aa5d61dab7f2f1245b
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 57c04e1f8dec33de5dffee92d0b162cb
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 5735033a17262209a1130459229a0982
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: f38bbfaa0076a590fe2421eb2ab68a9f
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: e7d0985d05a750c6550dd778ab14863e
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 13033d33c56d4e18e8442cc2debaa6f8
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: c310130da0b7ba8ad8d52003db9669c3
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/
.
apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main
dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates/main
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