[SECURITY] [DSA-343-1] New skk, ddskk packages fix insecure temporary file creation

From: Matt Zimmerman (mdzat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 16:33:50 PDT

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA 343-1                     securityat_private
    http://www.debian.org/security/                             Matt Zimmerman
    July 8th, 2003                          http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : skk, ddskk
    Vulnerability  : insecure temporary file
    Problem-Type   : local
    Debian-specific: no
    
    skk (Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program), 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 skk.
    
    ddskk is derived from the same code, and contains the same bug.
    
    For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
    skk version 10.62a-4woody1 and ddskk version 11.6.rel.0-2woody1.
    
    For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
    ddskk version 12.1.cvs.20030622-1, and skk will be fixed soon.
    
    We recommend that you update your skk and ddskk package-.
    
    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/skk/skk_10.62a-4woody1.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum:      650 4dfedc401e846e185a14bf86e12dde82
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skk_10.62a-4woody1.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:    10343 4e2d9a337118252422803eb5b5c13cc0
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skk_10.62a.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:  2952817 30bacbe572adf5c353bc65348ef7f2e4
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/ddskk/ddskk_11.6.rel.0-2woody1.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum:      651 7386dc3f171c6620065ed32bea7a61c8
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/ddskk/ddskk_11.6.rel.0-2woody1.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:     8684 2c345b4c6979509cd92ac2e411ae0825
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/ddskk/ddskk_11.6.rel.0.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:   583049 9c4b78ae5a5b9ca02d0cd450c0f01c47
    
      Architecture independent components:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skk_10.62a-4woody1_all.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   314864 7bc8fb95fb95c886377cc0eafd4f8281
    
      Alpha architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_alpha.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    14664 95cadc075d8daa920f018b4dec830761
    
      ARM architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_arm.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    12804 662ab1f2f69117112b7b8da543d04adf
    
      Intel IA-32 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_i386.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    12322 0ff353139210f243e35ed6c275f7da98
    
      Intel IA-64 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_ia64.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    16880 32cfed0ae347a436790c364204a61e6b
    
      HP Precision architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_hppa.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    13788 d2389fb2860653e0ef8bc72b314a87fb
    
      Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_m68k.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    12076 36963139b8c6a2f310e254c214958d7f
    
      Big endian MIPS architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_mips.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    13328 94b05baa358a3fda8d096c2f4f1d894c
    
      Little endian MIPS architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_mipsel.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    13326 5c0f5fa48cef96b37ae66a1b7cecf8e2
    
      PowerPC architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    12868 34eaf4315a5a358d84b5860a051d8563
    
      IBM S/390 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_s390.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    13280 0c989e849f3dcdc14b26d4a25557d00f
    
      Sun Sparc architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/skk/skkserv_10.62a-4woody1_sparc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:    15714 7a75008647a0d60f5fd2910bb69baffa
    
      Architecture independent components:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/ddskk/ddskk_11.6.rel.0-2woody1_all.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   488140 1a0a928861d148ae1dc005ecf50303dd
    
      These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
      its next revision.
    
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