-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ________________________________________________________________________ OpenPKG Security Advisory The OpenPKG Project http://www.openpkg.org/security.html http://www.openpkg.org openpkg-security@xxxxxxxxxxx openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx OpenPKG-SA-2004.055 23-Dec-2004 ________________________________________________________________________ Package: gettext Vulnerability: insecure temporary file generation OpenPKG Specific: no Affected Releases: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages: OpenPKG CURRENT <= gettext-0.14.1-20041006 >= gettext-0.14.1-20041217 OpenPKG 2.2 <= gettext-0.14.1-2.2.0 >= gettext-0.14.1-2.2.1 OpenPKG 2.1 <= gettext-0.14.1-2.1.0 >= gettext-0.14.1-2.1.1 Affected Releases: Dependent Packages: OpenPKG CURRENT aegis, apache, doodle, giftoxic, gimp, glib2, gpa, gqview, gtk2, heartbeat, indent, kcd, kde-base, kde-libs, kolab, libextractor, lyx, openjade, orbit, papyrus, perl-locale, php, php5, popt, smbc, subversion, xine-lib, xine-ui, yodl OpenPKG 2.2 aegis, apache, giftoxic, gimp, glib2, gqview, gtk2, indent, kolab, openjade, orbit, perl-locale, php, popt, yodl OpenPKG 2.1 aegis, apache, gimp, glib2, gqview, gtk2, indent, kolab, openjade, orbit, perl-locale, php, popt, yodl Description: Trustix security engineers discovered vulnerabilities [0] in the "autopoint" and "gettextize" scripts of GNU gettext [1]. The scripts in question insecurely generate temporary files which could allow a malicious user to overwrite another user's files via a "symlink attack". Software only using GNU gettext's headers and libraries is not affected by this problem, however. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the identifier CAN-2004-0966 [2] to the problem. Please check whether you are affected by running "<prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm -q gettext". If you have the "gettext" package installed and its version is affected (see above), we recommend that you immediately upgrade it (see Solution) and its dependent packages (see above) [3][4]. Solution: Select the updated source RPM appropriate for your OpenPKG release [5][6], fetch it from the OpenPKG FTP service [7][8] or a mirror location, verify its integrity [9], build a corresponding binary RPM from it [3] and update your OpenPKG installation by applying the binary RPM [4]. For the most recent release OpenPKG 2.2, perform the following operations to permanently fix the security problem (for other releases adjust accordingly). $ ftp ftp.openpkg.org ftp> bin ftp> cd release/2.2/UPD ftp> get gettext-0.14.1-2.2.1.src.rpm ftp> bye $ <prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm -v --checksig gettext-0.14.1-2.2.1.src.rpm $ <prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm --rebuild gettext-0.14.1-2.2.1.src.rpm $ su - # <prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm -Fvh <prefix>/RPM/PKG/gettext-0.14.1-2.2.1.*.rpm Additionally, we recommend rebuilding and reinstalling all dependent packages (see above) as well [3][4]. ________________________________________________________________________ References: [0] http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050 [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0966 [3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source [4] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.2/UPD/gettext-0.14.1-2.2.1.src.rpm [6] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.1/UPD/gettext-0.14.1-2.1.1.src.rpm [7] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.2/UPD/ [8] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.1/UPD/ [9] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature ________________________________________________________________________ For security reasons, this advisory was digitally signed with the OpenPGP public key "OpenPKG <openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx>" (ID 63C4CB9F) of the OpenPKG project which you can retrieve from http://pgp.openpkg.org and hkp://pgp.openpkg.org. Follow the instructions on http://pgp.openpkg.org/ for details on how to verify the integrity of this advisory. ________________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: OpenPKG <openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx> iD8DBQFBytgqgHWT4GPEy58RAhuGAKDpeqcGekb2uYC6ng+MxUK2KMemgACeJSin dAYcOAONTykpMwG4C7routM= =EWyA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
