-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1657-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp October 20, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : qemu Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-4553 Debian Bug : 496394 Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the qemu-make-debian-root script in qemu, fast processor emulator, 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 0.8.2-4etch2. For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.1-6. We recommend that you upgrade your qemu 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/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1130 fd503742c9e3e64be60f8ff265f05edc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1501979 312eebc1386cca2e9b30a40763ab9c0d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 65528 6b47c99fa9e0e99e4af47d5417bc497b amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3697974 1e88b4385a82864d386fe57608c8617a i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3676128 cd73888cc1915af94792085994b946e3 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3578592 86133e0b1804cc53f78f8eb71779a337 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) iD8DBQFI/OoqwM/Gs81MDZ0RAi1KAJ9u7MPZCS56SYaALfmEYuN6GP7/eACeLmqE 81SKUu5vlFvKQDlu8IwoLE0= =Szbv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
