Debian Security Advisory
DSA-839-1 apachetop -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 04 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- apachetop
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2660.
- More information:
-
Eric Romang discovered an insecurely created temporary file in apachetop, a realtime monitoring tool for the Apache webserver that could be exploited with a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files with the user id that runs apachetop.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your apachetop package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.