Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:34:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: (Martin Schulze) <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 279-1] New metrics packages fix insecure temporary file creation
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 279-1 [email protected]http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 7th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : metrics
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file creation
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2003-0202
Paul Szabo and Matt Zimmerman discoverd two similar problems in
metrics, a tools for software metrics. Two scripts in this package,
"halstead" and "gather_stats", open temporary files without taking
appropriate security precautions. "halstead" is installed as a user
program, while "gather_stats" is only used in an auxiliary script
included in the source code. These vulnerabilities could allow a
local attacker to overwrite files owned by the user running the
scripts, including root.
The stable distribution (woody) is not affected since it doesn't
contain a metrics package anymore.
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed
in version 1.0-1.1.
The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected since it doesn't
contain a metrics package anymore.
We recommend that you upgrade your metrics package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 527 8e0a5e5a4897f6748669dcbcf98c5502
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 5171 b22998c91bbf809a44097f4fd6b5c83e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 77716 b5c03baa70c6826b27dcababe81f4259
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 50216 3599a7ae7e2fe985970766e3b1143a52
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 44056 ea4b7cebada6b730acabe45b568b2eda
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42942 a9d3846fae94cc5b805b8ed8ec4ee514
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 41778 4eb48f051e430fb72884d1212a9ad415
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 44054 6a24a7813b1707ad1176b636e9b1db0b
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 51932 4252be7738d1a6eb4a3333d86e386d5a
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<;pkg>
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