Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1657-1 qemu -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 20 Oct 2008
- Affected Packages:
- qemu
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 496394.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-4553. - More information:
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Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the qemu-make-debian-root script in qemu, fast processor emulator, 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 0.8.2-4etch2.
For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.1-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your qemu package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2.orig.tar.gz
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2_amd64.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2_i386.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch2_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.