DSA-105-1 enscript -- insecure temporary files

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-105-1 enscript -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:

21 Jan 2002

Affected Packages:

enscript

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0044.

More information:

The version of enscript (a tool to convert ASCII text to different formats) in potato has been found to create temporary files insecurely.

This has been fixed in version 1.6.2-4.1.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/enscript_1.6.2-4.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/enscript_1.6.2-4.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/enscript_1.6.2.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_i386.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_m68k.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_powerpc.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_sparc.deb

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