Debian Security Advisory

DSA-928-1 dhis-tools-dns -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

27 Dec 2005

Affected Packages:

dhis-tools-dns

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3341.

More information:

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that two scripts in the dhis-tools-dns package, DNS configuration utilities for a dynamic host information System, which are usually executed by root, create temporary files in an insecure fashion.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a dhis-tools-dns package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 5.0-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 5.0-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your dhis-tools-dns package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.