Debian alert: New noweb packages fix insecure temporary file creation

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 323-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Matt Zimmerman
June 16th, 2003                         http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : noweb
Vulnerability  : insecure temporary files
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id         : CAN-2003-0381

Jakob Lell discovered a bug in the 'noroff' script included in noweb
whereby a temporary file was created insecurely.  During a review,
several other instances of this problem were found and fixed.  Any of
these bugs could be exploited by a local user to overwrite arbitrary
files owned by the user invoking the script.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.9a-7.3.

For old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.9a-5.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your noweb 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 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-5.1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      597 137a3145bc50159f0b9abd217d9f2f62
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-5.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    69048 a77cc9e502d6e891c6aa74df7b0c9fe5
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   687372 1096b16aaa281a97e269eb5d80236296

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-5.1_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1327308 10b065044f506c8c548bb6e2c76c5fec

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-5.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   976072 ffa9f84860085bfda89791c79867d3fd

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.2.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      607 ac68c7e4f9057d9b5a38238c28f7d266
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.2.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    41136 122211b0a7590e7cdc21aaa9a890d082
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   687372 1096b16aaa281a97e269eb5d80236296

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1339532 6f3f10aa4a5056d003c91b3f4564871c

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1061418 6ca2d4bd8026333006c2566f918f12ca

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   966664 b4a1b216e98e3dda4bd62eb37618f1ca

  HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1257458 4d13eb89c7cf9ba72ab0a30e4d5cb7ab

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   920562 110bd24b5abaa99d2633121b8b103825

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.3_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1145274 7dbf6bdbe25c08f94984fbf9b5e2979f

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

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Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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