Package : thttpd Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3124
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.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------