Debian Security Advisory
DSA-285-1 lprng -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 14 Apr 2003
- Affected Packages:
- lprng
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7334.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0136. - More information:
-
Karol Lewandowski discovered that psbanner, a printer filter that creates a PostScript format banner and is part of LPRng, insecurely creates a temporary file for debugging purpose when it is configured as filter. The program does not check whether this file already exists or is linked to another place, psbanner writes its current environment and called arguments to the file unconditionally with the user id daemon.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.10-1.2.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.20-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your lprng package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng-doc_3.8.10-1.2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lprng/lprng_3.8.10-1.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.