Debian Security Advisory
DSA-160-1 scrollkeeper -- insecure temporary file creation
- Date Reported:
- 03 Sep 2002
- Affected Packages:
- scrollkeeper
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 5602.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0662. - More information:
-
Spybreak discovered a problem in scrollkeeper, a free electronic cataloging system for documentation. The scrollkeeper-get-cl program creates temporary files in an insecure manner in /tmp using guessable filenames. Since scrollkeeper is called automatically when a user logs into a Gnome session, an attacker with local access can easily create and overwrite files as another user.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.3.6-3.1 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 0.3.11-2 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected, since it doesn't contain the scrollkeeper package.
We recommend that you upgrade your scrollkeeper packages immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_ia64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper-dev_0.3.6-3.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_0.3.6-3.1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scrollkeeper/libscrollkeeper0_0.3.6-3.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.