Debian Security Advisory
DSA-426-1 netpbm-free -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 18 Jan 2004
- Affected Packages:
- netpbm-free
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9442.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0924.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#487102. - More information:
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netpbm is a graphics conversion toolkit made up of a large number of single-purpose programs. Many of these programs were found to create temporary files in an insecure manner, which could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking a vulnerable netpbm tool.
For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2:9.20-8.4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2:9.25-9.
We recommend that you update your netpbm-free package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm-free_9.20-8.4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm-free_9.20-8.4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm-free_9.20.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm-free_9.20-8.4.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.4_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.4_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.4_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.4_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.4_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.4_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.4_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.4_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.4_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.4_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9_9.20-8.4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_9.20-8.4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netpbm-free/libnetpbm9-dev_9.20-8.4_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.