-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1643-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 05, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : feta Vulnerability : insecure temp file handling Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-4440 Debian Bug : 496397 Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the "to-upgrade" plugin of Feta, a simpler interface to APT, dpkg, and other Debian package tools creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to local denial of service through symlink attacks. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.15+etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.16+nmu1. We recommend that you upgrade your feta 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 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/feta/feta_1.4.15+etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 545 87c8cdfc722b149eefc2c4cc1e05c868 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/feta/feta_1.4.15+etch1.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 52134 27b5bc566e7f42a5b79dd8ef67013b8d Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/feta/feta_1.4.15+etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 47708 8133fddc8dc30973c5fcb3368292b1fb 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 v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjon74ACgkQXm3vHE4uylreTgCg2Zv31MR4RicAZZkBMrD9UAsY 6iMAn0eev0L7/1n1QZDvoPPdbdKn+xPP =hHRj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----