DSA-1068-1 fbi -- insecure temporary file

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1068-1 fbi -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

20 May 2006

Affected Packages:

fbi

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 361370.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-1695.

More information:

Jan Braun discovered that the fbgs script of fbi, an image viewer for the framebuffer environment, creates an directory in a predictable manner, which allows denial of service through symlink attacks.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.23woody1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.01-1.2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your fbi package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_1.23woody1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/exiftran_2.01-1.2sarge1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fbi/fbi_2.01-1.2sarge1_sparc.deb

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