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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2004.0790 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 610-1 New cscope packages fix insecure temporary file creation 20 December 2004 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: cscope Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Linux variants UNIX variants Impact: Overwrite Arbitrary Files Access: Existing Account CVE Names: CAN-2004-0996 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-610 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 610-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 17th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : cscope Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0996 BugTraq ID : 11697 Debian Bug : 282815 A vulnerability has been discovered in cscope, a program to interactively examine C source code, which may allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 15.3-1woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 15.5-1. We recommend that you upgrade your cscope package. Upgrade Instructions - - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 593 92a1d4fc455afa78d855f61032726cfb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5750 2e991cad957c7fc76da2f6e05e02162d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 196580 7540514aab8c0a3737ee8dd08a5422ba Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 129904 55a18b826ab935a85ff9b1151d7058cf ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 111498 5da8a35ac3eaba039afa93ac1beba3ae Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 105106 9dc15376b2fafce9a63cdadae3784b35 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 148664 9373976f2b1a14a165b71a04c3ed0c99 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 121870 49f6e6a16ad6c9646b18a87790d775ca Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 102290 428a0104834961d7e6fc8935d41653e3 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 119642 358d6239a38bffffc5d767ab3fceb4c4 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 119442 60c6abca0f605bf8efa6e0160716d351 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 114240 00df8d48376af2f93bda799ad9c95e16 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 111110 c50a7ffc138d41c33ad6c7a7e768ff38 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 115174 4e14738f98c36bb1cb7a6d1a63bfc688 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBwqIUW5ql+IAeqTIRAj2ZAJ9Ij5FSXA1cFKt/IYqcGYTn+GMwCQCfVXPr kiebfD5mGpm8jGTDXY+OoDU= =k4Pr - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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