[USN-5-1] gettext vulnerabilities

From: Martin Pitt (martin.pitt_at_canonical.com)
Date: 10/27/04

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    Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5-1 October 27, 2004
    gettext vulnerabilities
    CAN-2004-0966
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    A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

    Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)

    The following packages are affected:

    gettext

    The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
    version 0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
    sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

    Details follow:

    Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the
    gettext package. The programs "autopoint" and "gettextize" created
    temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed 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/g/gettext/gettext_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1.diff.gz
          Size/MD5: 82347 e172d137c397dc88ca545acebd40b423
        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1.dsc
          Size/MD5: 789 d273a3e94446d89f603d16ed9587d00b
        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext_0.14.1.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5: 6550874 78f4b862510beb2e5d43223dd610e77d

      Architecture independent packages:

        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext-doc_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1_all.deb
          Size/MD5: 638924 610bd9c00f7971f9d359f7a3902db2e4
        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext-el_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1_all.deb
          Size/MD5: 45340 cf1fc64a65b38622fdbd29e63b538b69

      amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext-base_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
          Size/MD5: 92890 581e614d3c390a0b0c4b52752e03cf75
        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
          Size/MD5: 1576278 a3240029c897fcfac68be7eda1f638bb

      i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext-base_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
          Size/MD5: 91066 df2857a4dd7be300743c4e8ec7990997
        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
          Size/MD5: 1549186 d16f720d7ef6e031afab70263394c70a

      powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext-base_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5: 94174 9f849ed93f64d80fe669603b581b9df3
        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext_0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5: 1590102 cba3d457ded8697c018b3e3ac6853f94

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