Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1492-1 wml -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:
10 Feb 2008
Affected Packages:
wml
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 463907.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0665, CVE-2008-0666.
More information:

Frank Lichtenheld and Nico Golde discovered that WML, an off-line HTML generation toolkit, creates insecure temporary files in the eperl and ipp backends and in the wmg.cgi script, which could lead to a local denial of service by overwriting files.

The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.11-1etch1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wml packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1.diff.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_amd64.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wml/wml_2.0.11-1etch1_sparc.deb

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

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