Debian Security Advisory

DSA-341-1 liece -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

07 Jul 2003

Affected Packages:

liece

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0537.

More information:

liece, an IRC client for Emacs, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. This bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and liece, potentially with contents supplied by the attacker.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0+0.20030527cvs-1.

We recommend that you update your liece package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece_2.0+0.20020217cvs.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/liece/liece-dcc_2.0+0.20020217cvs-2.1_sparc.deb

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