Debian Security Advisory
DSA-636-1 glibc -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 12 Jan 2005
- Affected Packages:
- glibc
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 279680, Bug 278278, Bug 205600.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 11286.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0968, CVE-2004-1382. - More information:
-
Several insecure uses of temporary files have been discovered in support scripts in the libc6 package which provides the c library for a GNU/Linux system. Trustix developers found that the catchsegv script uses temporary files insecurely. Openwall developers discovered insecure temporary files in the glibcbug script. These scripts are vulnerable to a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.5-11.8.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.3.2.ds1-20.
We recommend that you upgrade your libc6 package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.2.5-11.8.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.2.5-11.8.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.2.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.2.5-11.8.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/glibc-doc_2.2.5-11.8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/locales_2.2.5-11.8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/locales_2.2.5-11.8_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1_2.2.5-11.8_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-dev_2.2.5-11.8_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-pic_2.2.5-11.8_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-prof_2.2.5-11.8_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.2.5-11.8_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.2.5-11.8_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1_2.2.5-11.8_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-dev_2.2.5-11.8_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-pic_2.2.5-11.8_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-prof_2.2.5-11.8_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6.1-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.2.5-11.8_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.2.5-11.8_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.2.5-11.8_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.2.5-11.8_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.2.5-11.8_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.2.5-11.8_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.2.5-11.8_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.2.5-11.8_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.2.5-11.8_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.2.5-11.8_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.2.5-11.8_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.2.5-11.8_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.