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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gsambad/gsambad_0.1.4-2etch1.dsc
- 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.