Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1402-1 gforge -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 07 Nov 2007
- Affected Packages:
- gforge
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3921.
- More information:
-
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that gforge, a collaborative development tool, used temporary files insecurely which could allow local users to truncate files upon the system with the privileges of the gforge user, or create a denial of service attack.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1-31sarge4.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch3.
We recommend that you upgrade your gforge package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_3.1-31sarge4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_3.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_3.1-31sarge4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_3.1.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/sourceforge_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-sourceforge-transition_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-cvs_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_3.1-31sarge4_all.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch3_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.