Debian Security Advisory: New version of make released

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:38:30 -0800
From: Aleph One aleph1@UNDERGROUND.ORG
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: [Debian] New version of make released

Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Wichert Akkerman
February 20, 2000

Package: make
Vulnerability type: symlink attack
Debian-specific: no

The make package as shipped in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is
vulnerable to a race condition that can be exploited with a symlink
attack. make used mktemp while creating temporary files in /tmp.
and that is a known potential security hole, as documented in the
man page of mktemp.

This has been fixed in version 3.77-5slink. We recommend you
upgrade your make package immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink

This version of Debian was released only for Intel ia32, the
Motorola 680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/make_3.77.orig.tar.gz

MD5Dum: b8264b1f8579d810a6de5db634aeafe4

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/make_3.77-5slink.diff.gz

MD5Dum: 4cf0016add45fb2bb1986cdcf3df4df2

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/make_3.77-5slink.dsc

MD5Dum: 351d1492a17cd4b38f522037a2714a86

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/make_3.77-5slink_alpha.deb

MD5Dum: a253a6d897edbc163595dbedefbfd8bc

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/make_3.77-5slink_i386.deb

MD5Dum: 78367bf9f0d309d732eaa57bc9008462