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Debian Security Advisory DSA 279-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Martin Schulze
April 7th, 2003                          Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : metrics
Vulnerability  : insecure temporary file creation
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id         : CAN-2003-0202

Paul Szabo and Matt Zimmerman discoverd two similar problems in
metrics, a tools for software metrics.  Two scripts in this package,
"halstead" and "gather_stats", open temporary files without taking
appropriate security precautions.  "halstead" is installed as a user
program, while "gather_stats" is only used in an auxiliary script
included in the source code.  These vulnerabilities could allow a
local attacker to overwrite files owned by the user running the
scripts, including root.

The stable distribution (woody) is not affected since it doesn't
contain a metrics package anymore.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed
in version 1.0-1.1.

The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected since it doesn't
contain a metrics package anymore.

We recommend that you upgrade your metrics 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 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      527 8e0a5e5a4897f6748669dcbcf98c5502
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:     5171 b22998c91bbf809a44097f4fd6b5c83e
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    77716 b5c03baa70c6826b27dcababe81f4259

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    50216 3599a7ae7e2fe985970766e3b1143a52

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    44056 ea4b7cebada6b730acabe45b568b2eda

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    42942 a9d3846fae94cc5b805b8ed8ec4ee514

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    41778 4eb48f051e430fb72884d1212a9ad415

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    44054 6a24a7813b1707ad1176b636e9b1db0b

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    51932 4252be7738d1a6eb4a3333d86e386d5a


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