Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1402-1 gforge -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:

07 Nov 2007

Affected Packages:

gforge

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3921.

More information:

Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that gforge, a collaborative development tool, used temporary files insecurely which could allow local users to truncate files upon the system with the privileges of the gforge user, or create a denial of service attack.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1-31sarge4.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch3.

We recommend that you upgrade your gforge package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_3.1-31sarge4.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_3.1.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_3.1-31sarge4.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/sourceforge_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-sourceforge-transition_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-cvs_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch3.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch3.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb

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