Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1205-2 thttpd -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:

02 Nov 2006

Affected Packages:

thttpd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 396277.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4248.

More information:

The original advisory for this issue didn't contain fixed packages for all supported architectures which are corrected in this update. For reference please find below the original advisory text:

Marco d'Itri discovered that thttpd, a small, fast and secure webserver, makes use of insecure temporary files when its logfiles are rotated, which might lead to a denial of service through a symlink attack.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.23beta1-3sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.23beta1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your thttpd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_arm.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the revised advisory.