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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2005.0767 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 839-1 New apachetop packages fix insecure temporary file 5 October 2005 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: apachetop Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 UNIX variants Impact: Overwrite Arbitrary Files Access: Existing Account CVE Names: CAN-2005-2660 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-839 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian Linux. It is recommended that administrators running Apache check for an updated version of the software for their operating system. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 839-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 4th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : apachetop Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2660 Eric Romang discovered an insecurely created temporary file in apachetop, a realtime monitoring tool for the Apache webserver that could be exploited with a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files with the user id that runs apachetop. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5-5. We recommend that you upgrade your apachetop 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: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 613 cf61395747017a6c8a4319be4cbafe83 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 2956 76b0826270dcf4c51b191b9aaa3f58f8 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 126967 47c40c26319d57100008a2a56dcefe06 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 36262 d532edba02bdf8d4dd2316b68866d906 AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 31370 c8fdae994094269fbe3f597858c8ba14 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 30572 dc820d6f5af5a89989705c919f5b8bdb Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 30160 cc20d5d7ab5798ec98966b944259fde4 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 40446 06f813d834fc7566317c94d4ff07c9ff HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 34332 aea9a750be0952a46d1d03f9b0d8d8cd Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 27844 df4e67fb0a58d32537dd4cb7c88c3e24 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 34964 ab8c82dec697e8567a0b819f25ff1c60 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 34864 48009e8eb7bf1cac0178d33bed3594e9 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 33138 22c5a90df13d862497d4fd0060d2d53a IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 31172 120ff918508d38deaf737f22d8a1da96 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 30532 2a5637a3f94148621756e648b0e9cfdb 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: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDQiQmW5ql+IAeqTIRAqMDAJ4tZmEDfuJhji4A9buPaH5fKjuOPgCfR2w9 rRgqul028p/Lf8wDiAT8fsg= =/s/I - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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