--- Begin Message ---
- From: joey@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Martin Schulze)
- Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 292-1] New mime-support packages fix temporary file race conditions
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:24:46 +0200 (CEST)
- Content-disposition: inline
- List-help: <mailto:debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org?subject=help>
- List-post: <mailto:debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org>
- List-subscribe: <mailto:debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org?subject=subscribe>
- List-unsubscribe: <mailto:debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org?subject=unsubscribe>
- Old-return-path: <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Priority: urgent
- Resent-date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:27:11 -0500 (CDT)
- Resent-from: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
- Resent-message-id: <pWvjzB.A.m6D.-EVp-@murphy>
- Resent-sender: debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org
- X-bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=0.11.1.6
- X-debian: PGP check passed for security officers
- X-loop: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
- X-mailing-list: <debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org>
- X-original-to: kmuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- X-spam-checker-version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp)
- X-spam-level:
- X-spam-status: No, hits=-110.5 required=10.0 tests=BAYES_01,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_3,PGP_SIGNATURE, UNDESIRED_LANGUAGE_BODY,USER_AGENT,USER_IN_WHITELIST, X_LOOP,X_MAILING_LIST autolearn=ham version=2.53
- X-virus-scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517
- Message-id: <m197yhS-000oflC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- User-agent: dsa-launch $Revision: 1.12 $
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debian Security Advisory DSA 292-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 22nd, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : mime-support
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file creation
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
Colin Phipps discovered several problems in mime-support, that contains
support programs for the MIME control files 'mime.types' and 'mailcap'.
When a temporary file is to be used it is created insecurely, allowing
an attacker to overwrite arbitrary under the user id of the person
executing run-mailcap, most probably root. Additionally the program did
not properly escape shell escape characters when executing a command.
This is unlikely to be exploitable, though.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.18-1.1.
For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.9-1.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.22-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mime-support 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 2.2 alias potato
- ---------------------------------
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.9-1.1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 473 45ec24d391fbccffe70612eee5117d12
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.9-1.1.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 91665 530e77c39a2ef192da2492af7b4ee493
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.9-1.1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 99118 0b86cad241365d36b376fdc2d5d6bb2e
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
- --------------------------------
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.18-1.1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 475 a4e5dfead5075aff505dea895dc15a44
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.18-1.1.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 72157 2c486737714c778928f354ccab4a01be
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.18-1.1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 68520 4a2fb1fa53ef6c0b83e5416399a1b2ea
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 v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE+pVCuW5ql+IAeqTIRArfgAJ46rkMKgQTNtF88YdAGrViQGETFpQCgmzgK
tIEgFzbTjRteYZfexIniT4E=
=KD9g
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
--- End Message ---