===================================================================== CERT-Renater Note d'Information No. 2005/VULN004 _____________________________________________________________________ DATE : 06/01/2005 HARDWARE PLATFORM(S) : / OPERATING SYSTEM(S) : Systems running htmlheadline. ====================================================================== - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 622-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 3rd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : htmlheadline Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-1181 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña has discovered multiple insecure uses of temporary files that could lead to overwriting arbitrary files via a symlink attack. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 21.8-3. The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain this package. We recommend that you upgrade your htmlheadline 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/h/htmlheadline/htmlheadline_21.8-3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 579 36da72a4ff991d7646a77eb7d8789f8a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/htmlheadline/htmlheadline_21.8-3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5383 8c098ae1c43cf8f5f702191864e29b84 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/htmlheadline/htmlheadline_21.8.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 42360 319b218bd8c787a1455540a85428adc6 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/htmlheadline/htmlheadline_21.8-3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 44570 c55c6906ba256b1731d8d6c5a151eaf1 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 ' and http://packages.debian.org/ ====================================================================== ========================================================= Les serveurs de référence du CERT-Renater http://www.urec.fr/securite http://www.cru.fr/securite http://www.renater.fr ========================================================= + CERT-RENATER | tel : 01-53-94-20-44 + + 151 bd de l'Hopital | fax : 01-53-94-20-41 + + 75013 Paris | email: certsvp@renater.fr + =========================================================