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DSA 1648-1: New mon packages fix insecure temporary files
Posted by Bob on: 2008-10-08 21:45:01 [ Print | Permalink ]

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1648-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
October 08, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mon
Vulnerability : insecure temporary files
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-4477
Debian Bug : 496398

Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the test.alert script used in one of the
alert functions in mon, a system to monitor hosts or services and alert
about problems, creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to a local
denial of service through symlink attacks.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.99.2-9+etch2.

For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has
been fixed in version 0.99.2-13.

We recommend that you upgrade your mon 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/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 660 777a64c7f02bb12ed424f0cc2ca74b09
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 17561 21156aea6f48d98eaab3b43e42a062b1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 166255 2a0d34cd493abc10042bf05d2271a55b

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 181564 98676f30cb451402908bb933c7996a23

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 178732 5d1332ad8f248b39ccdebc1b78d6d3d8

arm architecture (ARM)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 177878 8c6d31fb6423e0f7850add19c15c412a

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 179802 9f3758a0f88fc8022f2d2b255e5e5e0f

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 178842 96745e69e7720b72d50f35f60a837e9b

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 179774 b1c5d9ef86303add929ef02b7ba75db5

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 178722 1b12a60e19b32271a38ea16175465166

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 178396 55e3e042f8490c0ffe563fe84394940f

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 178204 71f4e1fe9623e4bd235a3cbbad9eb7b1

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 178180 cc178896b1cb25a50401ef6f713e0a4b

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 179196 ceb4cc733f22bdeefefe6d695c77c774


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 <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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