Debian Security Advisory

DSA-559-1 net-acct -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:
06 Oct 2004
Affected Packages:
net-acct
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 270359.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0851.
More information:

Stefan Nordhausen has identified a local security hole in net-acct, a user-mode IP accounting daemon. Old and redundant code from some time way back in the past created a temporary file in an insecure fashion.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.71-5woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.71-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your net-acct package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-acct/net-acct_0.71-5woody1_sparc.deb

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