Debian Security Advisory
DSA-945-1 antiword -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 17 Jan 2006
- Affected Packages:
- antiword
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3126.
- More information:
-
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that two scripts in antiword, utilities to convert Word files to text and Postscript, create a temporary file in an insecure fashion.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.32-2woody0.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.35-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.35-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your antiword package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.