Debian Security Advisory

DSA-656-1 vdr -- insecure file access

Date Reported:

25 Jan 2005

Affected Packages:

vdr

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0071.

More information:

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Team has discovered that the vdr daemon which is used for video disk recorders for DVB cards can overwrite arbitrary files.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.0-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.6-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your vdr package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vdr/vdr_1.0.0-1woody2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vdr/vdr_1.0.0-1woody2.tar.gz
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vdr/vdr_1.0.0-1woody2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vdr/vdr-daemon_1.0.0-1woody2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vdr/vdr-kbd_1.0.0-1woody2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vdr/vdr-lirc_1.0.0-1woody2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vdr/vdr-rcu_1.0.0-1woody2_i386.deb

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