Debian Security Advisory
DSA-633-1 bmv -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 11 Jan 2005
- Affected Packages:
- bmv
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0014.
- More information:
-
Peter Samuelson, upstream maintainer of bmv, a PostScript viewer for SVGAlib, discovered that temporary files are created in an insecure fashion. A malicious local user could cause arbitrary files to be overwritten by a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-14.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-17.
We recommend that you upgrade your bmv packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2.diff.gz
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2_i386.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.