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DSA 1674-1: New jailer packages fix denial of service
Posted by Bob on: 2008-11-30 09:40:01 [ 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-1674-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
November 30, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : jailer
Vulnerability : insecure temp file generation
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-5139
Debian Bug : 410548

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that updatejail, a component
of the chroot maintenance tool Jailer, creates a predictable temporary
file name, which may lead to local denial of service through a symlink
attack.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4-9+etch1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable
distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your jailer 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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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jailer/jailer_0.4-9+etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 27372 403ad34e153f4dbc14621b2bca464487
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jailer/jailer_0.4.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 27920 a6bead6286022c54e73bfe1f51e5e5f3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jailer/jailer_0.4-9+etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 599 2a59c032c5da19b3443c0bd5c573a6e6

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jailer/jailer_0.4-9+etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 11688 8e042e660665df9b8657399ec3845cc8


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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