Debian Security Advisory
DSA-806-1 gcvs -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 09 Sep 2005
- Affected Packages:
- cvs
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 325106.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2693. - More information:
-
Marcus Meissner discovered that the cvsbug program from gcvs, the Graphical frontend for CVS, which serves the popular Concurrent Versions System, uses temporary files in an insecure fashion.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0a7-2woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0final-5sarge1.
The unstable distribution (sid) does not expose the cvsbug program.
We recommend that you upgrade your gcvs package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0a7-2woody1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gcvs/gcvs_1.0final-5sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.