-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 927-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 27th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : tkdiff Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3343 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that tkdiff, a graphical side by side "diff" utility, creates temporary files in an insecure fashion. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.08-3woody0. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.2-1sarge0. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.2-2. We recommend that you upgrade your tkdiff 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/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_3.08-3woody0.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 568 f331eee995b5ec3b5346b519c7147ee4 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_3.08-3woody0.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3685 f00859ddd284e8016728b5a1d00b6fdd http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_3.08.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 63171 197e9bee9812a5698889c589efd9b1ee Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_3.08-3woody0_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 67308 7314490886f96610a31f71bc22513c7f Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_4.0.2-1sarge0.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 571 e54f2d9fcd23c386640502fbe119e2b0 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_4.0.2-1sarge0.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3973 decabcedfbb5b9fc7dfa8a48b661b563 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_4.0.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 86258 c52f7d8d87ebe34fbba6b6bdf30f3c60 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_4.0.2-1sarge0_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 85468 c5fe0c83bfb827e2903a045767f03ded 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) iD8DBQFDsRIqW5ql+IAeqTIRAkdvAKCK00pkEMfITxstn1NNAw/FfY1L6gCePA5p ubVrX5NT23KTtox5UHV65S0= =HIHB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----