[SECURITY] [DSA-339-1] New semi, wemi packages fix insecure temporary file creation

From: Matt Zimmerman (mdzat_private)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 17:52:03 PDT

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA 339-1                     securityat_private
    http://www.debian.org/security/                             Matt Zimmerman
    July 6th, 2003                          http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : semi, wemi
    Vulnerability  : insecure temporary file
    Problem-Type   : local
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Ids        : CAN-2003-0440
    
    NOTE: due to a combination of administrative problems, this advisory
    was erroneously released with the identifier "DSA-337-1".  DSA-337-1
    correctly refers to an earlier advisory regarding gtksee.
    
    semi, a MIME library for GNU Emacs, does not take appropriate
    security precautions when creating temporary files.  This bug could
    potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the
    privileges of the user running Emacs and semi, potentially with
    contents supplied by the attacker.
    
    wemi is a fork of semi, and contains the same bug.
    
    For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
    semi version 1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10-1woody2 and wemi version
    1.14.0.20010802wemiko-1.3.
    
    For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
    semi version 1.14.5+20030609-1.  The unstable distribution does not
    contain a wemi package.
    
    We recommend that you update your semi and wemi 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 3.0 alias woody
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      Source archives:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/semi/semi_1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10-1woody2.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum:      620 3949b7a3bc726a8f96b24adf5c965e37
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/semi/semi_1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10-1woody2.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:    20481 abd8c72197b6fc901c454247d8750ea4
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/semi/semi_1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:   134788 2f0dd2581b1350a0a5249bb6c8ea18f0
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wemi/wemi_1.14.0.20010802wemiko-1.3.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum:      630 a0dfbca5275f27cbf0a5849390c15a25
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wemi/wemi_1.14.0.20010802wemiko-1.3.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:    29933 23b2c6e66f69683c4892d7ac16ff7337
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wemi/wemi_1.14.0.20010802wemiko.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:   138332 e58f2eda9401df7493584e7f064b2ed1
    
      Architecture independent components:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/semi/semi_1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10-1woody2_all.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   175496 73a1be04f4457ae6c92e487dc42c09d0
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wemi/wemi_1.14.0.20010802wemiko-1.3_all.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   173030 241fc879552c26a4a8a62b9874adaab0
    
      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-announceat_private
    Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/>
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