[SECURITY] [DSA 172-1] New tkmail packages fix insecure temporary file creation

From: Martin Schulze (joeyat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 06:58:51 PDT

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA 172-1                     securityat_private
    http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
    October 8th, 2002                       http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : tkmail
    Vulnerability  : insecure temporary files
    Problem-Type   : local
    Debian-specific: no
    
    It has been discovered that tkmail creates temporary files insecurely.
    Exploiting this an attacker with local access can easily create and
    overwrite files as another user.
    
    This problem has been fixed in version 4.0beta9-8.1 for the current
    stable distribution (woody), in version 4.0beta9-4.1 for the old
    stable distribution (potato) and in version 4.0beta9-9 for the
    unstable distribution (sid).
    
    We recommend that you upgrade your tkmail packages.
    
    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/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum:      568 61426095674836c7e1f5a9cea9261222
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:    93134 872788cd23d7a3e12fc64a164d57d1da
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:   264219 eade4a27565d159080cbaa0b73d27ae0
    
      Alpha architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_alpha.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   225608 6c0e39cad8ef8a9e59ac5dfc8dbc9865
    
      ARM architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_arm.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   208538 0f3717e650b5289b8221e819d623a505
    
      Intel IA-32 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_i386.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   206376 f7ab8ba0b5c0f569f40063a32cbe91ed
    
      Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_m68k.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   202328 5a8a574098345feffd39a6ed398d728e
    
      PowerPC architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   210386 f5be4d907367adc70d2646922514198d
    
      Sun Sparc architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-4.1_sparc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   212170 8a65743306d20b564f0b087ea95f63fc
    
    
    Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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      Source archives:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum:      578 0a2951b292fd265cd59eec8cb632a3b8
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:    61394 9ea83f1086ebe432430264a1fa206b9a
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:   264219 eade4a27565d159080cbaa0b73d27ae0
    
      Alpha architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_alpha.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   223450 c052579b2cee968909bc10dfc8cc4d1e
    
      ARM architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_arm.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   208496 21cf07e457a653a92e42679f1fda203e
    
      Intel IA-32 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_i386.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   206350 55f58c223e5fd47b5eaac3912c2caab9
    
      Intel IA-64 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_ia64.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   241806 ea5e1917cf0d8242aa58d30a4135966b
    
      HP Precision architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_hppa.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   216926 5fd662cd9ad0e1ae70824654aa7042e8
    
      Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_m68k.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   201662 0609e9e8b1ac84bee25a671e839efbed
    
      Big endian MIPS architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_mips.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   215310 2909e42fd4f2895297f901f4f9b494c6
    
      Little endian MIPS architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_mipsel.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   215572 ebf8d34e8840e72ca29144dbd9d92818
    
      PowerPC architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   211486 17187753cf81810e7af9c1bd5b2b868b
    
      IBM S/390 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_s390.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   208348 eaffa6d4831efd74ff97bb805ddeeb57
    
      Sun Sparc architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkmail/tkmail_4.0beta9-8.1_sparc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   215600 3eec99aff80c9e1ae8a5513c5ce25077
    
    
      These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
      its next revision.
    
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