Debian Security Advisory

DSA-118-1 xsane -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:
05 Mar 2002
Affected Packages:
xsane
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
No other external database security references currently available.
More information:

Tim Waugh found several insecure uses of temporary files in the xsane program, which is used for scanning. This was fixed for Debian/stable by moving those files into a securely created directory within the /tmp directory.

This problem has been fixed in version 0.50-5.1 for the stable Debian distribution and in version 0.84-0.1 for the testing and unstable distribution of Debian.

We recommend that you upgrade your xsane package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xsane_0.50-5.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xsane_0.50-5.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xsane_0.50.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/xsane_0.50-5.1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/xsane_0.50-5.1_arm.deb
Intel ia32:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/xsane_0.50-5.1_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/xsane_0.50-5.1_m68k.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/xsane_0.50-5.1_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/xsane_0.50-5.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.