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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1676-1] New flamethrower packages fix denial of service

    From dann frazier@1:229/2 to All on Tue Dec 2 00:10:09 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1676-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ dann frazier
    December 01, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : flamethrower (0.1.8-1+etch1)
    Vulnerability : insecure temp file generation
    Problem type : local
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-5141
    Debian Bug : 506350

    Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that flamethrower creates predictable temporary filenames, which may lead to a local denial of service through a symlink attack.

    For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.8-1+etch1.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 0.1.8-2.

    We recommend that you upgrade your flamethrower 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 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flamethrower/flamethrower_0.1.8-1+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3138 f6263743cb41f4f75ab9f4dbc76a71a5
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flamethrower/flamethrower_0.1.8.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 23485 04e1b6c5b4e72879e8aa69fcccb0491f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flamethrower/flamethrower_0.1.8-1+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 598 4a880e477706f57bcfb806eb46a81922

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flamethrower/flamethrower_0.1.8-1+etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 16880 fbc0c1b237503a9d88521b444e4319e0


    These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
    its next update.

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    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: [email protected]
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