Debian Security Advisory
DSA-305-1 sendmail -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 15 May 2003
- Affected Packages:
- sendmail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7614.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0308. - More information:
-
Paul Szabo discovered bugs in three scripts included in the sendmail package where temporary files were created insecurely (expn, checksendmail and doublebounce.pl). These bugs could allow an attacker to gain the privileges of a user invoking the script (including root).
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 8.12.3-6.4.
For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems have been fixed in version 8.9.3-26.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 8.12.9-2.
We recommend that you update your sendmail package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-doc_8.12.3-6.4_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.4_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.1_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.1_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.1_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.