Debian Security Advisory

DSA-325-1 eldav -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

19 Jun 2003

Affected Packages:

eldav

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0438.

More information:

eldav, a WebDAV client for Emacs, creates temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs and eldav.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20020411-1woody1.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain an eldav package.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.2-1.

We recommend that you update your eldav package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.