Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1327-1 gsambad -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:

01 Jul 2007

Affected Packages:

gsambad

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-2838.

More information:

Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that gsambad, a GTK+ configuration tool for samba, uses temporary files in an unsafe manner which may be exploited to truncate arbitrary files from the local system.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.4-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed shortly.

We recommend that you upgrade your gsambad package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1_ia64.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1_sparc.deb

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