Debian Security Advisory

DSA-256-1 mhc -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:
28 Feb 2003
Affected Packages:
mhc
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0120.
More information:

A problem has been discovered in adb2mhc from the mhc-utils package. The default temporary directory uses a predictable name. This adds a vulnerability that allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files the users has write permissions for.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.25+20010625-7.1.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain mhc packages.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.25+20030224-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mhc-utils packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc_0.25+20010625-7.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc_0.25+20010625-7.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc_0.25+20010625.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc_0.25+20010625-7.1_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_sparc.deb

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