Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1648-1 mon -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 08 Oct 2008
- Affected Packages:
- mon
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 496398.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-4477. - More information:
-
Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the test.alert script used in one of the alert functions in mon, a system to monitor hosts or services and alert about problems, creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to a local denial of service through symlink attacks.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.2-9+etch2.
For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.2-13.
We recommend that you upgrade your mon package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-9+etch2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.