From: debian-security-announce@LISTS.DEBIAN.ORG
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-053-1] nedit symlink attack
Date: 26 Apr 2001 16:48:56 -0600
Debian Security Advisory DSA-053-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman
April 27, 2001
Package : nedit
Problem type : insecure temporary file
Debian-specific: no
The nedit (Nirvana editor) package as shipped in the non-free
section accompanying Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato had a bug in its
printing code: when printing text it would create a temporary file
with the to be printed text and pass that on to the print system.
The temporary file was not created safely, which could be exploited
by an attacked to make nedit overwrite arbitrary files.
This has been fixed in version 5.02-7.1.
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/non-free/source/nedit_5.02-7.1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 82b90eea8263fd3f6140b40737f1fc16
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/source/nedit_5.02-7.1.dsc
MD5 checksum: e14d25693dab3e329a93bdca10a45f03
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/source/nedit_5.02.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 2d8d0a8ec173fde6d574ffef40bbc524
Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-alpha/nedit_5.02-7.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 18b921a22b20423e1e10ea599f8e98a3
ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-arm/nedit_5.02-7.1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 748d639bc26e810a23fb4911b5a93da0
Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-i386/nedit_5.02-7.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 1ad6fee0f55443820817b6a7e702afbf
Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-m68k/nedit_5.02-7.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: eecbe4dd085e4d3588d1b1e2ce394af7
PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-powerpc/nedit_5.02-7.1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: abb9cbbee1abf13ba7d7cbcc16caf07a
Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-sparc/nedit_5.02-7.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: cc465ff49985a82cd150fb38f449f75b
These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its
next revision.
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
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org