Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1216-1 flexbackup -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 20 Nov 2006
- Affected Packages:
- flexbackup
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 334350.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-4802. - More information:
-
Eric Romang discovered that the flexbackup backup tool creates temporary files in an insecure manner, which allows denial of service through a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-2sarge1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your flexbackup package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flexbackup/flexbackup_1.2.1-2sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flexbackup/flexbackup_1.2.1-2sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flexbackup/flexbackup_1.2.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flexbackup/flexbackup_1.2.1-2sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flexbackup/flexbackup_1.2.1-2sarge1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.