Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1676-1 flamethrower -- insecure temp file generation
- Date Reported:
- 01 Dec 2008
- Affected Packages:
- flamethrower
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 506350.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5141. - More information:
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Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that flamethrower creates predictable temporary filenames, which may lead to a local denial of service through a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.8-1+etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.8-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your flamethrower package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flamethrower/flamethrower_0.1.8-1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flamethrower/flamethrower_0.1.8.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flamethrower/flamethrower_0.1.8-1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flamethrower/flamethrower_0.1.8.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flamethrower/flamethrower_0.1.8-1+etch1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.