[Please upgrade if you use the Emacs eldav package on any platform -- Raju]
This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-325-1] New eldav packages fix insecure temporary file creation Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:43:01 -0400 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 325-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman June 19th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : eldav Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0438 eldav, a WebDAV client for Emacs, creates temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs and eldav. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20020411-1woody1. The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain an eldav package. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.2-1. We recommend that you update your eldav 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/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 592 9dd06517b53570a595d5c368924ceda1 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3814 c4400b418452e1aea9a115a2af82e1aa http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 12319 3b62e4b9b05eb1c8ef27e9f5d3b98db2 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 15546 5dc5beca6a1c57b5a4b32968ebc07da4 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+8iAwArxCt0PiXR4RArGiAJ0dsiLwzY7T1kS61iKbSfIQeq2YRQCgvNkx /eVKdD6yTvGG2Vw0/ipLy8M= =zUSA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ End of this Digest ****************** -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
