Debian Security Advisory

DSA-883-1 thttpd -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

04 Nov 2005

Affected Packages:

thttpd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3124.

More information:

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit team discovered that the syslogtocern script from thttpd, a tiny webserver, uses a temporary file insecurely, allowing a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.21b-11.3.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.23beta1-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.23beta1-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your thttpd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.21b-11.3_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.21b-11.3_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd_2.23beta1-3sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/thttpd/thttpd-util_2.23beta1-3sarge1_sparc.deb

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