DSA-1062-1 kphone -- insecure file creation

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1062-1 kphone -- insecure file creation

Date Reported:

19 May 2006

Affected Packages:

kphone

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 337830.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2442.

More information:

Sven Dreyer discovered that KPhone, a Voice over IP client for KDE, creates a configuration file world-readable, which could leak sensitive information like SIP passwords.

The old stable distribution (woody) doesn't contain kphone packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.0-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.2-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your kphone package. If your current kphonerc has too lax permissions, you'll need to reset them manually.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_sparc.deb

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