Debian alert: New mime-support packages fix temporary file race conditions

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 292-2                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
April 23rd, 2003                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : mime-support
Vulnerability  : insecure temporary file creation
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no

Unfortunately yesterday's update for mime-support did not exactly work
as expected, which requires an update.  For completeness we include
the advisory text:

  Colin Phipps discovered several problems in mime-support, that contains
  support programs for the MIME control files 'mime.types' and 'mailcap'.
  When a temporary file is to be used it is created insecurely, allowing
  an attacker to overwrite arbitrary under the user id of the person
  executing run-mailcap, most probably root.  Additionally the program did
  not properly escape shell escape characters when executing a command.
  This is unlikely to be exploitable, though.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.18-1.2.

For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.9-1.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.22-1 (same as DSA 292-1).

We recommend that you upgrade your mime-support packages.


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 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.9-1.2.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      473 aee5059f79f23a3a87bae000d4be1d3e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.9-1.2.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    91752 65c98a8e86529662af082682eca108ae

  Architecture independent components:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.9-1.2_all.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    99198 97ca84b5ade9137cbba38fc05a14bdff


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.18-1.2.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      475 7a83acdfcdcb2a128ebc2de347ad51c8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.18-1.2.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    72215 df544f4173db71ddbead9c61a8e9b3b5

  Architecture independent components:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support_3.18-1.2_all.deb


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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