DSA-610-1 cscope -- insecure temporary file

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-610-1 cscope -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

17 Dec 2004

Affected Packages:

cscope

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 282815.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 11697.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0996.

More information:

A vulnerability has been discovered in cscope, a program to interactively examine C source code, which may allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 15.3-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 15.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cscope package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody2_sparc.deb

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