- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1531-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst March 27, 2008 https://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : policyd-weight Vulnerability : insecurity temporary files Problem type : local Debian-specific: no Chris Howells discovered that policyd-weight, a policy daemon for the Postfix mail transport agent, created its socket in an insecure way, which may be exploited to overwrite or remove arbitary files from the local system. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.14-beta-6etch1. The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain a policyd-weight package. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your policyd-weight 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 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Source archives: https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/policyd-weight/policyd-weight_0.1.14-beta-6etch1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 4967 e8f97333e6434de752bd3e83293a9f86 https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/policyd-weight/policyd-weight_0.1.14-beta.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 45179 fb4829a57c8b805fe981ee949a145042 https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/policyd-weight/policyd-weight_0.1.14-beta-6etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 900 3e9bbeb7fc9ee1d7deff549558daecf4 Architecture independent packages: https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/policyd-weight/policyd-weight_0.1.14-beta-6etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 43534 db04606129cfd2f00175ec8a1f0cf469 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb https://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Debian: New policyd-weight packages fix insecure temporary files
Chris Howells discovered that policyd-weight, a policy daemon for the Postfix mail transport agent, created its socket in an insecure way, which may be exploited to overwrite or remove arbitary files from the local system.
