Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1577-1 gforge -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 14 May 2008
- Affected Packages:
- gforge
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0167.
- More information:
-
Stephen Gran and Mark Hymers discovered that some scripts run by GForge, a collaborative development tool, open files in write mode in a potentially insecure manner. This may be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files on the local system.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch8.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your gforge package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch8.dsc
- 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_4.5.14-22etch8.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.