Debian Security Advisory
DSA-323-1 noweb -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 16 Jun 2003
- Affected Packages:
- noweb
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7937.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0381. - More information:
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Jakob Lell discovered a bug in the 'noroff' script included in noweb whereby a temporary file was created insecurely. During a review, several other instances of this problem were found and fixed. Any of these bugs could be exploited by a local user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user invoking the script.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.9a-7.3.
For old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9a-5.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your noweb package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-5.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-5.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-5.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-5.1_alpha.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-5.1_i386.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_i386.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_mips.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.