Debian Security Advisory
DSA-658-1 libdbi-perl -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 25 Jan 2005
- Affected Packages:
- libdbi-perl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0077.
- More information:
-
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates a temporary PID file in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person executing the parts of the library.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.21-2woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.46-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your libdbi-perl package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbi-perl/libdbi-perl_1.21-2woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.