Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1342-1 xfs -- race condition
- Date Reported:
- 30 Jul 2007
- Affected Packages:
- xfs
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3103.
- More information:
-
It was discovered that a race condition in the init.d script of the X Font Server allows the modification of file permissions of arbitrary files if the local administrator can be tricked into restarting the X font server.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) xfs is present as part of the monolithic xfree86 package. A fix will be provided along with a future security update.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-6.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your xfs package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_ia64.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.