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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2005.0022 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 633-1 New bmv package fixes insecure temporary file creation 12 January 2005 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: bmv Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Linux variants Impact: Overwrite Arbitrary Files Access: Existing Account CVE Names: CAN-2003-0014 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-633 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 633-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 11th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : bmv Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2003-0014 Peter Samuelson, upstream maintainer of bmv, a PostScript viewer for SVGAlib, discovered that temporary files are created in an insecure fashion. A malicious local user could cause arbitrary files to be overwritten by a symlink attack. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-14.2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-17. We recommend that you upgrade your bmv packages. 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/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 565 7b056960fafe4fca7c72083788cf5844 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 11811 ab4e7218ce67de842d3a78e1c8e11caf http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 50755 40c881800edac6b1d2ce75ea8da6e6b4 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 21762 b625704138829c0dcd96a25e0a7f365b These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) iD8DBQFB47r3W5ql+IAeqTIRAjAHAJ0fgu2JKMudZJxZbTeh8Pitaq66MACeMdtM F1EOxneGAQYYST/T820VyTc= =sfYq - -----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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