Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1945-1 gforge -- symlink attack
- Date Reported:
- 03 Dec 2009
- Affected Packages:
- gforge
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-3304.
- More information:
-
Sylvain Beucler discovered that gforge, a collaborative development tool, is prone to a symlink attack, which allows local users to perform a denial of service attack by overwriting arbitrary files.
The oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch13.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.7~rc2-7lenny3.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.8.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gforge packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch13.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch13.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch13_all.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.7~rc2-7lenny3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.7~rc2-7lenny3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.7~rc2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.7~rc2-7lenny3.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-plugin-mediawiki_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-plugin-scmsvn_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache2_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-plugin-scmcvs_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.7~rc2-7lenny3_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.