Package : mime-support
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file creation
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
Colin Phipps discovered several problems in mime-support, that contains
support programs for the MIME control files 'mime.types' and 'mailcap'.
When a temporary file is to be used it is created insecurely, allowing
an attacker to overwrite arbitrary under the user id of the person
executing run-mailcap, most probably root. Additionally the program did
not properly escape shell escape characters when executing a command.
This is unlikely to be exploitable, though.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.18-1.1.
For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.9-1.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.22-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mime-support packages.
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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These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce (at) lists.debian (dot) org [email concealed]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
Hash: SHA1
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 292-1 security (at) debian (dot) org [email concealed]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 22nd, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mime-support
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file creation
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
Colin Phipps discovered several problems in mime-support, that contains
support programs for the MIME control files 'mime.types' and 'mailcap'.
When a temporary file is to be used it is created insecurely, allowing
an attacker to overwrite arbitrary under the user id of the person
executing run-mailcap, most probably root. Additionally the program did
not properly escape shell escape characters when executing a command.
This is unlikely to be exploitable, though.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.18-1.1.
For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.9-1.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.22-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mime-support packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------
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/m/mime-support/mime-support
_3.9-1.1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 473 45ec24d391fbccffe70612eee5117d12
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support
_3.9-1.1.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 91665 530e77c39a2ef192da2492af7b4ee493
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support
_3.9-1.1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 99118 0b86cad241365d36b376fdc2d5d6bb2e
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support
_3.18-1.1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 475 a4e5dfead5075aff505dea895dc15a44
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support
_3.18-1.1.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 72157 2c486737714c778928f354ccab4a01be
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mime-support/mime-support
_3.18-1.1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 68520 4a2fb1fa53ef6c0b83e5416399a1b2ea
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce (at) lists.debian (dot) org [email concealed]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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