Debian Security Advisory
DSA-256-1 mhc -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 28 Feb 2003
- Affected Packages:
- mhc
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0120.
- More information:
-
A problem has been discovered in adb2mhc from the mhc-utils package. The default temporary directory uses a predictable name. This adds a vulnerability that allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files the users has write permissions for.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.25+20010625-7.1.
The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain mhc packages.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.25+20030224-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mhc-utils packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc_0.25+20010625-7.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc_0.25+20010625-7.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc_0.25+20010625.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc_0.25+20010625-7.1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc_0.25+20010625-7.1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mhc/mhc-utils_0.25+20010625-7.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.