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