Debian Security Advisory
DSA-857-1 graphviz -- insecure temporary file
- Date Reported:
- 10 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- graphviz
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 15050.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-4803. - More information:
-
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered insecure temporary file creation in graphviz, a rich set of graph drawing tools, that can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files by a local attacker.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem probably persists but the package is non-free.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.1-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.1-1sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your graphviz package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.2.1-1sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-doc_2.2.1-1sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/graphviz/graphviz-dev_2.2.1-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.