Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1062-1 kphone -- insecure file creation
- Date Reported:
- 19 May 2006
- Affected Packages:
- kphone
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 337830.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2442. - More information:
-
Sven Dreyer discovered that KPhone, a Voice over IP client for KDE, creates a configuration file world-readable, which could leak sensitive information like SIP passwords.
The old stable distribution (woody) doesn't contain kphone packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.0-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.2-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your kphone package. If your current kphonerc has too lax permissions, you'll need to reset them manually.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.