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
Debian Security Advisory DSA-022-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 26, 2001
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
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/
.
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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>’ and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>