Debian Security Advisory
DSA-941-1 tuxpaint -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 16 Jan 2006
- Affected Packages:
- tuxpaint
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3340.
- More information:
-
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that a script in tuxpaint, a paint program for young children, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain tuxpaint packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.14-2sarge0.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.15b-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your tuxpaint package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint-data_0.9.14-2sarge0_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.