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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-243-1 January 16, 2006
tuxpaint vulnerability
CVE-2005-3340
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
The following packages are affected:
tuxpaint
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 1:0.9.14-2ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that the tuxpaint-import.sh
script created a temporary file in an insecure way. This could allow a
symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user running tuxpaint.
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2ubuntu0.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5: 6127 109a598848fcaa2fd23f4b32f5478d79
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2ubuntu0.1.dsc
Size/MD5: 755 1b27685235065548832add6c65f6d638
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 3208894 0b7522c1b3672d5c233f7bbc772c8dec
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint-data_0.9.14-2ubuntu0.1_all.deb
Size/MD5: 1004980 ebc69ca71f5d5cd7fc5f9983d17656d6
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5: 98728 7211b8041bdadb65e5c15c9f8f7e377d
i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5: 91672 63ec1209cf7f89213a29fbbb5ab7b570
powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5: 100306 eb0d05c193c4f40ddb54c1dc03f7d451
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