Debian Security Advisory
DSA-610-1 cscope -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 17 Dec 2004
- Affected Packages:
- cscope
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 282815.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 11697.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0996. - More information:
-
A vulnerability has been discovered in cscope, a program to interactively examine C source code, which may allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 15.3-1woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 15.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your cscope package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.