-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1648-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst October 08, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : mon Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-4477 Debian Bug : 496398 Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the test.alert script used in one of the alert functions in mon, a system to monitor hosts or services and alert about problems, creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to a local denial of service through symlink attacks. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.2-9+etch2. For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.2-13. We recommend that you upgrade your mon 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 - ------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 660 777a64c7f02bb12ed424f0cc2ca74b09 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 17561 21156aea6f48d98eaab3b43e42a062b1 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 166255 2a0d34cd493abc10042bf05d2271a55b alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 181564 98676f30cb451402908bb933c7996a23 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 178732 5d1332ad8f248b39ccdebc1b78d6d3d8 arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 177878 8c6d31fb6423e0f7850add19c15c412a hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 179802 9f3758a0f88fc8022f2d2b255e5e5e0f i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 178842 96745e69e7720b72d50f35f60a837e9b ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 179774 b1c5d9ef86303add929ef02b7ba75db5 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 178722 1b12a60e19b32271a38ea16175465166 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 178396 55e3e042f8490c0ffe563fe84394940f powerpc architecture (PowerPC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 178204 71f4e1fe9623e4bd235a3cbbad9eb7b1 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 178180 cc178896b1cb25a50401ef6f713e0a4b sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 179196 ceb4cc733f22bdeefefe6d695c77c774 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSO0LJ2z0hbPcukPfAQJSbAgApJ5RYoQqlPAe0uT1e3ecHsYa/xJjM/x/ Z6smCVN4HQD7vj+SgaDYh9gzWIT9aAaXzdhJYeU8ry8r2luJjM3XSHEUy2bhHCOw yKEZhvdKt5AY2cOJRSBMtTJ1++ftOicz3RLE4T5mJrtmx2dAEZinmfbLSP+UnnJu fupZEPt2tKULzvXtRegUZQf10lS+AruQWv1aowUotwa6rHH+RjX9To5ZD2caS+4h QXcJVK7x5gZlK82AXylLsn+fsnWreeHc+CGKMIXyZrgkQvLVLyS8jmtK8jSaDgA6 iXNOe+NEerfZaFwgPiFASLgY57cVFMGvCX764AZ0tWq2kEPIas2aGQ== =NByV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
