reopen 494648
thanks

If you want, You may merge the bugs 444982 494648, dont close!

$ ln -s /etc/shadow /tmp/twiki
$ LANG=C sudo apt-get install twiki
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
....
Setting up twiki (1:4.1.2-3.2) ...
Adding password for user TWikiGuest
Adding password for user admin
reloading apache2 config
Reloading web server config: apache2.
$ ll /etc/shadow
-rwxrwxrwt 1 www-data www-data 1339 Июл 28 10:26 /etc/shadow



On 12:09 Wed 13 Aug     , Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

DBTS> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
DBTS> which was filed against the twiki package:

DBTS> #494648: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some 
Debian packages

DBTS> It has been closed by Sven Dowideit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

DBTS> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
DBTS> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
DBTS> better one in a separate message then please contact Sven Dowideit 
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DBTS> replying to this email.

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DBTS> 494648: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494648
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DBTS> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:06:46 +1000
DBTS> From: Sven Dowideit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
DBTS> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DBTS> Subject: duplicate of Bug#444982, which was fixed
DBTS> in Oct 2007
DBTS> User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16
DBTS> (X11/20080724)

DBTS> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444982

DBTS> Implemented Joey's suggestion of 1777 & O_EXCL - mostly the files in
DBTS> /tmp are written by CGI::Session, that takes care of things.
DBTS> Also moved the 1777 tmp dir back to /tmp/twiki, as per Nico's point wrt
DBTS> to filling /var

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DBTS> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:57:56 +0400
DBTS> From: "Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
DBTS> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DBTS> Subject: The possibility of attack with the help of
DBTS> symlinks in some Debian packages

DBTS> Package: twiki
DBTS> Severity: grave
DBTS> Tags: security

DBTS> This message about the error concerns a few packages  at  once.   I've
DBTS> tested all the packages on my Debian mirror.  (post|pre)(inst|rm)  and
DBTS> config scripts were tested.

DBTS> In some packages I've discovered scripts with errors which may be used
DBTS> by a user for damaging important system files.

DBTS> For example if a script uses in its work a temp file which is  created
DBTS> in /tmp directory, then every user can create symlink  with  the  same
DBTS> name in this directory in order to  destroy  or  rewrite  some    system
DBTS> file.

DBTS> I set Severity into grave for  this  bug.   The  table    of  discovered
DBTS> problems is below.

DBTS> +------------------+-----------------+----------------------------------
DBTS> |    package       |  script         | file for attack
DBTS> +------------------+-----------------+----------------------------------
DBTS> | mplayer-1.0~rc2  |  config         | /tmp/HACK (pipe)
DBTS> |                  |                 |
DBTS> | nws-2.13         |  postinst       | /tmp/nws.debug (cp)
DBTS> |                  |                 |
DBTS> | ppp-2.4.4rel     |  postinst       | /tmp/probe-finished (rm -f, pipe)
DBTS> |                  |  postinst       | /tmp/ppp-errors (rm -f, pipe)
DBTS> |   ppp-udeb       |  /etc/ppp/ip-up | /tmp/resolv.conf.tmp (cp)
DBTS> |                  |                 |
DBTS> | twiki-4.1.2      |  postinst       | /tmp/twiki  (chmod 1777, chown)
DBTS> +------------------+-----------------+----------------------------------
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