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Debian Linux Security Advisory 1643-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 1643-1
Posted Oct 7, 2008
Authored by Debian | Site debian.org

Debian Security Advisory 1643-1 - Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the "to-upgrade" plugin of Feta, a simpler interface to APT, dpkg, and other Debian package tools creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to local denial of service through symlink attacks.

tags | advisory, denial of service, local
systems | linux, debian
advisories | CVE-2008-4440
SHA-256 | 6c3b9b2848574f394f7607e8de2fa8ad427ccbe0710ccd1a000c68ec8be7c450

Debian Linux Security Advisory 1643-1

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1643-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
October 05, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : feta
Vulnerability : insecure temp file handling
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-4440
Debian Bug : 496397

Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the "to-upgrade" plugin of Feta,
a simpler interface to APT, dpkg, and other Debian package tools
creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to local denial
of service through symlink attacks.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.15+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.16+nmu1.

We recommend that you upgrade your feta 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 4.0 alias etch
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/feta/feta_1.4.15+etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 545 87c8cdfc722b149eefc2c4cc1e05c868
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/feta/feta_1.4.15+etch1.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 52134 27b5bc566e7f42a5b79dd8ef67013b8d

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/feta/feta_1.4.15+etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 47708 8133fddc8dc30973c5fcb3368292b1fb

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 <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>












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