Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1269-1 lookup-el -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:
18 Mar 2007
Affected Packages:
lookup-el
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-0237.
More information:

Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that Lookup, a search interface to electronic dictionaries on emacsen, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion when the ndeb-binary feature is used, which allows a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-3sarge1.

For the testing distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your lookup-el package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lookup-el/lookup-el_1.4-3sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lookup-el/lookup-el_1.4-3sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lookup-el/lookup-el_1.4.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lookup-el/lookup-el_1.4-3sarge1_all.deb

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