-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 827-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone September 29th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : backupninja Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : Moritz Muehlenhoff discovered the handler code for backupninja creates a temporary file with a predictable filename, leaving it vulnerable to a symlink attack. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the backupninja package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5-3sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8-2. We recommend that you upgrade your backupninja 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 702 fca2a04a7e02aebb41e0d3361706dcd7 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 9620 c6e317bdcfe2e5987ae5732208cfcf86 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 24667 94ff16fbd0ccffeb252de3d303626558 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 30650 68b2d618fead50ee4f9a17ba818504d4 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQzx9DA0hVr09l8FJAQLjaQP/b/BidNNTrWkYepACQd8NUsj+Yk6O97Uy Mt3hn2SAMJz0xOCq+DGJzDj0EQZ3L1Hexp/3ZZK1z8OEms7cwD1TC+d/QGwcDbrl paEsmqggPXhjdH0/IUl0ido0g6bX/mVowRHi6go+KRswXjesvMOYADKoS5U2WpdF 5wzfJDUvDbI= =RC6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
