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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2008.0320 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] New policyd-weight packages fix insecure temporary files 31 March 2008 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: policyd-weight Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Impact: Overwrite Arbitrary Files Delete Arbitrary Files Access: Existing Account Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1531 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running policyd-weight check for an updated version of the software for their operating system Revision History: March 31 2008: Patches reissued due to incomplete fix March 28 2008: Initial Release - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1531-2 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst March 29, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : policyd-weight Vulnerability : insecurity temporary files Problem type : local Debian-specific: no The previous update for policyd-weight was unfortunately not complete. Updated packages have been released that fully address the vulnerability. For reference the original advisory follows. 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-6etch2. 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: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/policyd-weight/policyd-weight_0.1.14-beta.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 45179 fb4829a57c8b805fe981ee949a145042 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/policyd-weight/policyd-weight_0.1.14-beta-6etch2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 900 9cf74d97e96eb0b118a5ad39fdd2226f http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/policyd-weight/policyd-weight_0.1.14-beta-6etch2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5382 1e4c07095291f50fce52aa8318f15a69 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/policyd-weight/policyd-weight_0.1.14-beta-6etch2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 43892 89fe76668f99f9771c99a3d6559ee7c6 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBR+6KDmz0hbPcukPfAQI6XwgAgH84UwppfZV6pZ7hG1uoFACKF+UuHLoW KYWOcO79gVq+apVmiSsV1fGcCUpiXaQmyLPvWi0z+jkB/k2dFnXEqcNGKOqJ8zlE lzytpdYcI5mndfjM0Cq3f2zTVR5K9O6YZOa2nM/sYB2maKX0v/5d60KE0gpEz/3L hrbZj58hrA2JcjrvkLwIWzvidnFGw+Esvpz1l/tTr92Flh9HYzZhYl0ZkpjIvbfS jyX3DqCZGmfAU98fot//zpFLkrmJUUfp7TwIkS83MeqgHBsEI17wjfG/n1MFFC42 1imfd2q1AFdOi3a3+48YB4x2PPKMVJudd+uTFYXioSXJboZqQSmDdg== =w1wV - -----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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