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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2006.0720 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian]
New migrationtools packages fix denial of service
2 October 2006
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: migrationtools
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact: Denial of Service
Access: Existing Account
CVE Names: CVE-2006-0512
Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1187
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1187-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
September 30th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : migrationtools
Vulnerability : insecure temporary files
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0512
Debian Bug : 338920
Jason Hoover discovered that migrationtools, a collection of scripts
to migrate user data to LDAP creates several temporary files insecurely,
which might lead to denial of service through a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 46-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 46-2.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your migrationtools package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/migrationtools/migrationtools_46-1sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 612 5a355cf02190e34db6b1ce980451f834
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/migrationtools/migrationtools_46-1sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 7507 9ac40aa23b34c01679b706fe8cd2805f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/migrationtools/migrationtools_46.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 21069 dc80548f76d6aeba2b51b15751e08b21
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/migrationtools/migrationtools_46-1sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 23284 762bca33fb8b2bf74efabe0735a490b8
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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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>
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