Debian Security Advisory
DSA-968-1 noweb -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 13 Feb 2006
- Affected Packages:
- noweb
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3342.
- More information:
-
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that a script in noweb, a web like literate-programming tool, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9a-7.4.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10c-3.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10c-3.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your nowebm package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.4.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-7.4.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_i386.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.10c-3.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.10c-3.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.10c.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.10c-3.2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.