DSA 827-1: New backupninja packages fix insecure temporary file

Posted by Bob on: 09/29/2005 06:12 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

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

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 827-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone
September 29th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : backupninja
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID :

Moritz Muehlenhoff discovered the handler code for backupninja creates
a temporary file with a predictable filename, leaving it vulnerable to
a symlink attack.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the backupninja package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your backupninja 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 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 702 fca2a04a7e02aebb41e0d3361706dcd7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 9620 c6e317bdcfe2e5987ae5732208cfcf86
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 24667 94ff16fbd0ccffeb252de3d303626558

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 30650 68b2d618fead50ee4f9a17ba818504d4

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 lt;pkggt;' and http://packages.debian.org/lt;pkggt;

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