DSA-583-1 lvm10 -- insecure temporary directory

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-583-1 lvm10 -- insecure temporary directory

Date Reported:

03 Nov 2004

Affected Packages:

lvm10

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 279229.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0972.

More information:

Trustix developers discovered insecure temporary file creation in a supplemental script in the lvm10 package that didn't check for existing temporary directories, allowing local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-5woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.8-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your lvm10 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lvm10/lvm10_1.0.4-5woody2_sparc.deb

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