-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 960-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 31st, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : libmail-audit-perl Vulnerability : insecure temporay file createion Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-4536 Debian Bug : 344029 Niko Tyni discovered that the Mail::Audit module, a Perl library for creating simple mail filters, logs to a temporary file with a predictable filename in an insecure fashion when logging is turned on, which is not the case by default. For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0-4woody1. For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.1-5sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.1-5sarge1. We recommend that you upgrade your libmail-audit-perl 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/libmail-audit-perl_2.0-4woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 663 f1cc82dae98e2a7ae42e29e757797b41 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/libmail-audit-perl_2.0-4woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5548 64f85349649a968db3493fa8ba27aea1 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/libmail-audit-perl_2.0.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 12526 3bc6043611f0fabdd856498e25bd48f6 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/libmail-audit-perl_2.0-4woody1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 29446 d7e0e9264e08f04777eb05f543956498 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/mail-audit-tools_2.0-4woody1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 8840 f97415f72fcf1806b18e9e059ae5c6e0 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/libmail-audit-perl_2.1-5sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 786 766a0a1d409fb6a55d0fd28cfeb9139d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/libmail-audit-perl_2.1-5sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 4227 48ed975c7c87db86bcafde084cde94a5 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/libmail-audit-perl_2.1.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 21669 b52b1142fa9ed7d847c531186f913ea6 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/libmail-audit-perl_2.1-5sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 41836 38128df51141ba4bd495f3d698629b52 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmail-audit-perl/mail-audit-tools_2.1-5sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 12176 1d898a6a9f2a40cad0416d5b107df3bd These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD3ziMW5ql+IAeqTIRAhWbAJ9TIV09mVk/cctpxkCIeTqmFC8PrQCfTN3y m05zhJ1hxUem+gIZsybGOtw= =HCnP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----