Debian Security Advisory
DSA-325-1 eldav -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 19 Jun 2003
- Affected Packages:
- eldav
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7987.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0438. - More information:
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eldav, a WebDAV client for Emacs, creates temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs and eldav.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20020411-1woody1.
The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain an eldav package.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.2-1.
We recommend that you update your eldav package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/eldav/eldav_0.0.20020411-1woody1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.