DSA-839-1 apachetop -- insecure temporary file

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-839-1 apachetop -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

04 Oct 2005

Affected Packages:

apachetop

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2660.

More information:

Eric Romang discovered an insecurely created temporary file in apachetop, a realtime monitoring tool for the Apache webserver that could be exploited with a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files with the user id that runs apachetop.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your apachetop package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apachetop/apachetop_0.12.5-1sarge1_sparc.deb

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