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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-49-1 December 23, 2004
debmake vulnerability
CAN-2004-1179
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
The following packages are affected:
debmake
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 3.7.4ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the debstd script from
debmake, a deprecated helper package for Debian packaging, created
temporary directories in an insecure manner. This could allow a
symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user invoking the program.
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debmake/debmake_3.7.4ubuntu0.1.dsc
Size/MD5: 565 530fc54f928a366dfbec2188ac5bd2d7
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debmake/debmake_3.7.4ubuntu0.1.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 40185 4f465bc55202b85579283f0a6e48a07c
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debmake/debmake_3.7.4ubuntu0.1_all.deb
Size/MD5: 44686 85d26bbc8e69cb24b8f3e6b5632f4814
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