Debian Security Advisory
DSA-053-1 nedit -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 27 Apr 2001
- Affected Packages:
- nedit
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 2667.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-0556. - More information:
-
The nedit (Nirvana editor) package as shipped in the non-free section
accompanying Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato had a bug in its printing code:
when printing text it would create a temporary file with the to be
printed text and pass that on to the print system. The temporary file
was not created safely, which could be exploited by an attacked to make
nedit overwrite arbitrary files.
This has been fixed in version 5.02-7.1.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/source/nedit_5.02-7.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/source/nedit_5.02-7.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/source/nedit_5.02.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/source/nedit_5.02-7.1.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-alpha/nedit_5.02-7.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-arm/nedit_5.02-7.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-i386/nedit_5.02-7.1_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-m68k/nedit_5.02-7.1_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-powerpc/nedit_5.02-7.1_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-sparc/nedit_5.02-7.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.