DSA 1577-1: New gforge packages fix insecure temporary files  

Posted by Daniela Mehler

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1577-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
May 14, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : gforge
Vulnerability : insecure temporary files
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0167

Stephen Gran and Mark Hymers discovered that some scripts run by GForge,
a collaborative development tool, open files in write mode in a potentially
insecure manner. This may be exploited to overwrite arbitary files on the
local system.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
4.5.14-22etch8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your gforge package.

Upgrade instructions
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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
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch8.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 950 b920bc8243418bf618256638369bc4cd
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2161141 e85f82eff84ee073f80a2a52dd32c8a5
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch8.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 198227 d2fa0c2fcd092cca4b06fa58c852bacc

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 88632 653a57ad16301d4c56dd6258c7899bf3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 704846 40d23715b91b68be2818f3cd40fcd69f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 76104 b9536b17b890cb1e9c01774799a2b7a7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 80300 14cb35a87fcd66ec653f2f195f1257ba
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 88530 949dba8de49b5294a6c1607c0e0867a9
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 86364 e5b31d0d6241fc49af69fa18a43ca5cb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 87170 4c43a30b39c833c6459bebf65efa3ffd
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1010898 6834ceb2ad8bec97dec9885f5d67a142
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 212528 aa2271a99ae166fda40c1dac6e866548
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 86070 5dc7c68b4c4d9a42809836405b85a240
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 89146 ca4c0ca3f759fac3419e9523ec7772a2
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 82106 706a78d1a7d86304890844b61988b580
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 95576 a2bba36bc643f1adf1950574fa38ff1d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 103780 666082ac03c7edecc48fce7072890654

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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/
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