[Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 279-1] New metrics packages fix insecure temporary file creation

From: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Date: 04/07/03

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA 279-1 security@debian.org
    http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
    April 7th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/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:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum: 527 8e0a5e5a4897f6748669dcbcf98c5502
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum: 5171 b22998c91bbf809a44097f4fd6b5c83e
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum: 77716 b5c03baa70c6826b27dcababe81f4259

      Alpha architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_alpha.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 50216 3599a7ae7e2fe985970766e3b1143a52

      ARM architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_arm.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 44056 ea4b7cebada6b730acabe45b568b2eda

      Intel IA-32 architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_i386.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 42942 a9d3846fae94cc5b805b8ed8ec4ee514

      Motorola 680x0 architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_m68k.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 41778 4eb48f051e430fb72884d1212a9ad415

      PowerPC architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 44054 6a24a7813b1707ad1176b636e9b1db0b

      Sun Sparc architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metrics/metrics_1.0-1.1_sparc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 51932 4252be7738d1a6eb4a3333d86e386d5a

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