DSA 661-2: New f2c packages fix insecure temporary files
Posted on: 04/20/2005 05:06 AM
New f2c packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 661-2 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 20th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : f2c Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0017
Dan McMahill noticed that our our advisory DSA 661-1 did not correct the multiple insecure files problem, hence, this update. For completeness below is the original advisory text:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that f2c and fc, which are both part of the f2c package, a fortran 77 to C/C++ translator, open temporary files insecurely and are hence vulnerable to a symlink attack. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities:
CAN-2005-0017
Multiple insecure temporary files in the f2c translator.
For the stable distribution (woody) and all others including testing this problem has been fixed in version 20010821-3.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your f2c 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 ---------------------------------