New f2c packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 661-2 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 20th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : f2c
Vulnerability : insecure temporary files
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0017

Dan McMahill noticed that our our advisory DSA 661-1 did not correct the multiple insecure files problem, hence, this update. For completeness below is the original advisory text:

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that f2c and fc, which are both part of the f2c package, a fortran 77 to C/C++ translator, open temporary files insecurely and are hence vulnerable to a symlink attack. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities:

CAN-2005-0017

Multiple insecure temporary files in the f2c translator.

For the stable distribution (woody) and all others including testing this problem has been fixed in version 20010821-3.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your f2c package.



Upgrade Instructions
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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
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 519 9b2bb4378799e59604236b0b3ac9d071
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 28846 2d49723d6a8e1ea4f67737dd031d34c0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 416017 f2527aed84c8db35c883615c3b9b8511

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 524226 0f5c34632212482cf65bb34353e8a22d

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 470606 c6dd76b690a83e375f8c921d2b871b6e

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 423136 d1d1523248bc0da3216c9361e3674b6c

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 678896 8f1fff444a7c3f19d0928b932c170b53

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 493478 add18234ac7c933ab0200fb31a085048

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 407490 4767c71a54b67e19d6039afa3e272f7b

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 482944 8efcba5fae72fac7afdaa21985a24201

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 481100 0f45588cacac79ee241319f4a83fcb42

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 455566 1b8f4f055268a71e99bd39ecc952cbef

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 446284 333d26b19a55a4b564ba927cd5e689db

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/f2c/f2c_20010821-3.2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 467270 743a0e4974deed21925aba2900942338


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update.