Debian Security Advisory
DSA-754-1 centericq -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 13 Jul 2005
- Affected Packages:
- centericq
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 14144.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1914. - More information:
-
Eric Romang discovered that centericq, a text-mode multi-protocol instant messenger client, creates some temporary files with predictable filenames and is hence vulnerable to symlink attacks by local attackers.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.20.0-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.20.0-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your centericq package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq_4.20.0-1sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-fribidi_4.20.0-1sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-utf8_4.20.0-1sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/centericq/centericq-common_4.20.0-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.