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Debian Security Advisory DSA 283-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Martin Schulze
April 11th, 2003                         Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : xfsdump
Vulnerability  : insecure file creation
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id         : CAN-2003-0173

Ethan Benson discovered a problem in xfsdump, that contains
administrative utilities for the XFS filesystem.  When filesystem
quotas are enabled xfsdump runs xfsdq to save the quota information
into a file at the root of the filesystem being dumped.  The manner in
which this file is created is unsafe.

While fixing this, a new option ``-f path'' has been added to xfsdq(8)
to specify an output file instead of using the standard output stream.
This file is created by xfsdq and xfsdq will fail to run if it exists
already.  The file is also created with a more appropriate mode than
whatever the umask happened to be when xfsdump(8) was run.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.1-2.

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it doesn't
contain xfsdump packages.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lpr package immediately.


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:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      578 00ef08b9c86059dcf17c436273fde1b7
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   529651 e9ec83441bb6fe13e965f0e1316f4225

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   290360 f6377c25e34704afc0200b2cc80dde5c

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   265276 c01b6f6e0f0eba33574bb18e2fb26ed7

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   250276 360961a6f9d54222c6c08385592e8a33

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   375712 d9dba35b74b1be605b7fea77cd19cb4e

  HP Precision architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   288192 09264ce17e61f5cacfabad2dc0010604

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   229558 d0d9e51b6d13449fee220fc63e6a1743

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   297536 bcaa50dac08bef00f247bfa454a967b6

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   300712 dd13377ed0b5be24cb360fa5659d1993

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   264102 c883d4ce1a5bd43a1f6948d310771b34

  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   253916 ccdb7623e957084ee039db8708f72c69

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   261368 1dcac2d36c24216896487b36507a4770


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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