Debian Security Advisory

DSA-968-1 noweb -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

13 Feb 2006

Affected Packages:

noweb

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3342.

More information:

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that a script in noweb, a web like literate-programming tool, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9a-7.4.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10c-3.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10c-3.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your nowebm package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.4.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a-7.4.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.9a.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_i386.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.9a-7.4_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.10c-3.2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.10c-3.2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.10c.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noweb/nowebm_2.10c-3.2_sparc.deb

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