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Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that gsambad, a GTK+ configuration tool for samba, uses temporary files in an unsafe manner which may be exploited to truncate arbitary files from the local system.. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1327 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp July 01, 2007 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : gsambad Vulnerability : insecurity temporary files Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-2838 Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that gsambad, a GTK+ configuration tool for samba, uses temporary files in an unsafe manner which may be exploited to truncate arbitary files from the local system. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.4-2etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed shortly. We recommend that you upgrade your gsambad 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 - -------------------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 24766 8ac63c3ecf53c7243f6f8675d3e2bb48 Size/MD5 checksum: 609 35dc69c7f48b6b327b782d310037eac6 Size/MD5 checksum: 385776 ced255218e024b43de6d42c9fc1653d2 alphaarchitecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 109878 5aadc8c608d516df18c4bffb0cee70a9 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 92416 9f332e4530c72917193402535c9f83e4 arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 88570 7f540eb27987fe1d8130279f1a3f41e1 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 93918 4f47a220caba72b7daadf205545dd214 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 120170 68f5483b3c10a787b7d8c6f3a7a39a34 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 87426 7f4408ddd5cb502067dcea364344cfe8 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 92822 4995be1a528256e86bb254dee1b0cc0f s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 85148 8ad37130b346472026e0171d09036729 sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 87174 b4a354e57e38c7dcaad14bff8a183975 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3721-1 highlights python2's insufficient input validation, creating potential security vulnerabilities. Patching is advised.. Debian Security,gSambad Fix,File Truncation,Security Exploit. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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