I saw this on the Full Disclosure mailing list - and don't recall seeing anything about it in the DBI mailing lists. I'm not sure whether there's anything much more to do about it than note that it happened...
(Should I have sent it to [email protected] instead?) Message: 16 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:45:27 +0100 From: Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [USN-70-1] Perl DBI module vulnerability To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" =========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-70-1 January 25, 2005 libdbi-perl vulnerabilities CAN-2005-0077 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) The following packages are affected: libdbi-perl The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.42-3ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the module DBI::ProxyServer in Perl's DBI library created a PID file in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking a program using this module (like 'dbiproxy'). Now the module does not create a such a PID file by default. Source archives: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.42-3ubuntu0.1.diff.gz Size/MD5: 13840 0ea63225d70126bd2492516466a2209d http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.42-3ubuntu0.1.dsc Size/MD5: 608 f6a5286d0a38572cd3ff944669ecf457 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.42.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5: 348167 ca8c8a1a4797d98121b41c1d0a5b3b7c amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.42-3ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb Size/MD5: 575324 487ed69858f7a4d6b0bc4810ea9b99ec i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.42-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb Size/MD5: 573900 eb99ce7af5c6c89bdc969210107807ae powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.42-3ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5: 577426 58c6f55a93ba0081a0737d16449a0dc8 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20050125/1bf8e242/attachment-0001.bin ----------------------------- -- Jonathan Leffler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) STSM, Informix Database Engineering, IBM Information Management Division 4100 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Tel: +1 650-926-6921 Tie-Line: 630-6921 "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"
