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Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the test.alert script used in one of the alert functions in mon, a system to monitor hosts or services and alert about problems, creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to a local denial of service through symlink attacks.. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1648-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst October 08, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : mon Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-4477 Debian Bug : 496398 Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the test.alert script used in one of the alert functions in mon, a system to monitor hosts or services and alert about problems, 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 0.99.2-9+etch2. For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.2-13. We recommend that you upgrade your mon 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: Size/MD5 checksum: 660 777a64c7f02bb12ed424f0cc2ca74b09 Size/MD5 checksum: 1756121156aea6f48d98eaab3b43e42a062b1 Size/MD5 checksum: 166255 2a0d34cd493abc10042bf05d2271a55b alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 181564 98676f30cb451402908bb933c7996a23 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 178732 5d1332ad8f248b39ccdebc1b78d6d3d8 arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 177878 8c6d31fb6423e0f7850add19c15c412a hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 179802 9f3758a0f88fc8022f2d2b255e5e5e0f i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 178842 96745e69e7720b72d50f35f60a837e9b ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 179774 b1c5d9ef86303add929ef02b7ba75db5 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 178722 1b12a60e19b32271a38ea16175465166 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 178396 55e3e042f8490c0ffe563fe84394940f powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 178204 71f4e1fe9623e4bd235a3cbbad9eb7b1 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 178180 cc178896b1cb25a50401ef6f713e0a4b sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 179196 ceb4cc733f22bdeefefe6d695c77c774 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. . The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-824-1 tackles vulnerabilities associated with the libxml2 library, mitigating possible exploits that could compromise system integrity.. Debian Advisory, Mon Package Update, Local Attack Fix. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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