Debian Security Advisory
DSA-286-1 gs-common -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 14 Apr 2003
- Affected Packages:
- gs-common
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7337.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0207. - More information:
-
Paul Szabo discovered insecure creation of a temporary file in ps2epsi, a script that is distributed as part of gs-common which contains common files for different Ghostscript releases. ps2epsi uses a temporary file in the process of invoking ghostscript. This file was created in an insecure fashion, which could allow a local attacker to overwrite files owned by a user who invokes ps2epsi.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.3.0woody1.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.3.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gs-common package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gs-common/gs-common_0.3.3.0woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gs-common/gs-common_0.3.3.0woody1.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gs-common/gs-common_0.3.3.0woody1.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gs-common/gs-common_0.3.3.0woody1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.