-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 279-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 7th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - -------------------- 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 - --------------------------------- 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 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+kTgsW5ql+IAeqTIRAibOAJwM9XMonih2oGlF7+iRBFmwXVgP6ACeMAl1 GwCz7H+zjp18TDRbWoqbywM= =sbyr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
