Debian Security Advisory

DSA-008-1 dialog -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:

25 Dec 2000

Affected Packages:

dialog

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

No other external database security references currently available.

More information:

Matt Kraai reported that he found a problem in the way dialog creates lock-files: It did not create them safely which made it susceptible to a symlink attack.

This has been fixed in version 0.9a-20000118-3bis.

Fixed in:

Debian 2.2 (potato)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis.dsc
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/dialog_0.9a-20000118.orig.tar.gz
alpha:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_alpha.deb
arm:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_arm.deb
i386:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_i386.deb
m68k:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_m68k.deb
powerpc:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_powerpc.deb
sparc:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/dialog_0.9a-20000118-3bis_sparc.deb