Debian: New gtkdiskfree packages fix insecure temporary file
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 822-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 29th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : gtkdiskfree Vulnerability : insecure temporary file creation Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2918 Eric Romang discovered that gtkdiskfree, a GNOME program that shows free and used space on filesystems, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the gtkdiskfree package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.3-4sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your gtkdiskfree package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 621 0bd28c26695d9fccf914ab1e377909b2 Size/MD5 checksum: 16542 ae45c717d4ae1b818444129e16c233cb Size/MD5 checksum: 255601 66218fc425da0a2c42adfcb9914dd641 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 98940 1b26a54bae0be826495264be3b7b82e6 AMD64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 94194 bfb1876fa331f1ae9cb0298c28ffe4c5 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 89044 1e857eadbbe706b8e225b2cb01d45490 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 90816 d4acc02866f01c1a8b730f415bdb0336 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 104408 459cf724e9f5577d4fda6a789c9a90bb HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 94946 7e14aaa69a7e846d77c96b84f9c5c025 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 88688 a9a9de28ad819007aa994944c20e523c Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 90530 7e553dc962f250a16cfe10512c9b458c Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 88680 2069bcc94c615cc7b7862469ad7f25eb PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 93076 8b4dc0bedd12247019212ece8466154d IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 94662 ec49c801f4c1637e43324ff161ac58ea Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 90310 d1bc24a8debc839678181bc842a5b047 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org