Debian Security Advisory

DSA-323-1 noweb -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:

16 Jun 2003

Affected Packages:

noweb

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0381.

More information:

Jakob Lell discovered a bug in the 'noroff' script included in noweb whereby a temporary file was created insecurely. During a review, several other instances of this problem were found and fixed. Any of these bugs could be exploited by a local user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user invoking the script.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.9a-7.3.

For old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9a-5.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your noweb package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-5.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-5.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-5.1_alpha.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-5.1_i386.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_i386.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_mips.deb

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