Debian Security Advisory
DSA-704-1 remstats -- tempfile, missing input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 04 Apr 2005
- Affected Packages:
- remstats
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0387, CVE-2005-0388.
- More information:
-
Jens Steube discovered several vulnerabilities in remstats, the remote statistics system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CAN-2005-0387
When processing uptime data on the unix-server a temporary file is opened in an insecure fashion which could be used for a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the remstats user.
- CAN-2005-0388
The remoteping service can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands due to missing input sanitising.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.00a4-8woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.13a-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your remstats packages.
- CAN-2005-0387
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats_1.00a4-8woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats_1.00a4-8woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats_1.00a4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats_1.00a4-8woody1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-doc_1.00a4-8woody1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-servers_1.00a4-8woody1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats_1.00a4-8woody1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-servers_1.00a4-8woody1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/remstats/remstats-bintools_1.00a4-8woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.