DSA-150-1 interchange -- illegal file exposition

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-150-1 interchange -- illegal file exposition

Date Reported:

13 Aug 2002

Affected Packages:

interchange

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 5453.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0874.

More information:

A problem has been discovered in Interchange, an e-commerce and general HTTP database display system, which can lead to an attacker being able to read any file to which the user of the Interchange daemon has sufficient permissions, when Interchange runs in "INET mode" (internet domain socket). This is not the default setting in Debian packages, but configurable with Debconf and via configuration file. We also believe that this bug cannot exploited on a regular Debian system.

This problem has been fixed by the package maintainer in version 4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 4.8.6-1 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected, since it doesn't ship the Interchange system.

We recommend that you upgrade your interchange packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange-cat-foundation_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange-ui_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_ia64.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/interchange/libapache-mod-interchange_4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.