Debian Security Advisory
DSA-583-1 lvm10 -- insecure temporary directory
- Date Reported:
- 03 Nov 2004
- Affected Packages:
- lvm10
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 279229.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0972. - More information:
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Trustix developers discovered insecure temporary file creation in a supplemental script in the lvm10 package that didn't check for existing temporary directories, allowing local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-5woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.8-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your lvm10 package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.