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Debian two vulnerabilities in mime-support
Secunia Advisory:	SA8641	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2003-04-23
Last Update:	2003-05-01
Popularity:	6,224 views

Critical:	Less critical
Impact:	Privilege escalation
Where:	Local system
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

OS:	Debian GNU/Linux 2.x Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid

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Description: Debian has issued updated packages for mime-support. These fix two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges. One vulnerability is caused due to insecure creation of temporary files. This can be exploited via a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with the privileges of the user executing "run-mailcap" - typically "root". The other vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error. Certain shell escape characters are not escaped properly when commands are executed. However, Debian states that exploitation of this vulnerability is highly unlikely. Solution: Updated packages: -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato -- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...mime-support/mime-support_3.9-1.3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 473 691d2e5ee8c934314278579b62b15404 http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...e-support/mime-support_3.9-1.3.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 91820 d0825b583b06f80a87280f8b1eafc8d6 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...-support/mime-support_3.9-1.3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 99266 4e4c0a921a163346e35e7cf273068fac -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody -- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...ime-support/mime-support_3.18-1.3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 475 3bd3a28a8209f694188c4a3f645b30fd http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...-support/mime-support_3.18-1.3.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 72281 9ef6f8c5ecd653d559f0835fb3429422 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...support/mime-support_3.18-1.3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 67980 a90f0324ad8bffa5b7d00a97a3506175 -- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid -- Fixed in version 3.23-1. Provided and/or discovered by: Colin Phipps Changelog: 2003-04-23: Debian issued updated packages for Debian 2.2 and 3.0 to fix an error in the previously released packages. 2003-05-01: Debian issued new updated packages. Apparently, the second vulnerability was not corrected. Original Advisory: http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-292

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