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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2002.038 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA-105-1
enscript creates temporary files insecurely
21 January 2002
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: enscript
Vendor: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Linux
UNIX
Platform: Alpha
ARM
i386
Motorola 680x0
PowerPC
SPARC
Impact: Overwrite Arbitrary Files
Reduced Security
Access Required: Existing Account
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-105-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman
January 21, 2002
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Package : enscript
Problem type : insecure temporary files
Debian-specific: no
The version of enscript (a tool to convert ASCII text to different
formats) has been found to create temporary files insecurely.
This has been fixed in version 1.6.2-4.1 .
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/enscript_1.6.2-4.1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 9804afe6e88ce01c401e7ba69c16f499
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/enscript_1.6.2-4.1.dsc
MD5 checksum: 45d3c704006ac4f5782af606c85950f8
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/enscript_1.6.2.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 823e5eec421350c91bd5e65ebdc9fa7f
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: de76734dc050b25b7e910373c8952b4e
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 30a6f887dcfe58b03683dfceb36891ae
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 6eb940c410f2363a35fc0ba29bd03e6b
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 411d2c7f1dda66b5ae1e560b664063e0
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: ea2a8299d261a0bdc33c7b26d2a5adde
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: e53fc25a3f3788f2063c8b5490aaeb24
These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
revision.
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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
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