Debian Security Advisory
DSA-559-1 net-acct -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 06 Oct 2004
- Affected Packages:
- net-acct
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 270359.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0851. - More information:
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Stefan Nordhausen has identified a local security hole in net-acct, a user-mode IP accounting daemon. Old and redundant code from some time way back in the past created a temporary file in an insecure fashion.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.71-5woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.71-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your net-acct package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.