Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1577-1 gforge -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:

14 May 2008

Affected Packages:

gforge

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0167.

More information:

Stephen Gran and Mark Hymers discovered that some scripts run by GForge, a collaborative development tool, open files in write mode in a potentially insecure manner. This may be exploited to overwrite arbitary files on the local system.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your gforge package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch8.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch8.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-web-apache_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-courier_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-postfix_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-ldap_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-shell-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-common_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-db-postgresql_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ftp-proftpd_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-mta-exim4_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-lists-mailman_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-ldap-openldap_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge-dns-bind9_4.5.14-22etch8_all.deb

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