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Debian Security Advisory DSA 292-2 security@debian.org
Debian -- Security Information Martin Schulze
April 23rd, 2003 Debian -- Debian security FAQ
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Package : mime-support
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file creation
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
Unfortunately yesterday's update for mime-support did not exactly work
as expected, which requires an update. For completeness we include
the advisory text:
Colin Phipps discovered several problems in mime-support, that contains
support programs for the MIME control files 'mime.types' and 'mailcap'.
When a temporary file is to be used it is created insecurely, allowing
an attacker to overwrite arbitrary under the user id of the person
executing run-mailcap, most probably root. Additionally the program did
not properly escape shell escape characters when executing a command.
This is unlikely to be exploitable, though.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.18-1.2.
For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.9-1.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.22-1 (same as DSA 292-1).
We recommend that you upgrade your mime-support 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 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 473 aee5059f79f23a3a87bae000d4be1d3e
Size/MD5 checksum: 91752 65c98a8e86529662af082682eca108ae
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 99198 97ca84b5ade9137cbba38fc05a14bdff
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 475 7a83acdfcdcb2a128ebc2de347ad51c8
Size/MD5 checksum: 72215 df544f4173db71ddbead9c61a8e9b3b5
Architecture independent components:
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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