Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 1577-1] New gforge packages fix insecure temporary files

From: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs_at_debian.org>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:33:52 +0200 (CEST)

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1577-1 security_at_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:

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_at_lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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Received on May 14 2008