Updated gzip package are available for Mandrakelinux
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Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: gzip
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2004:142
Date: December 6th, 2004

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, 9.2, Corporate Server 2.1,
Multi Network Firewall 8.2
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Problem Description:

The Trustix developers found some insecure temporary file creation problems in the zdiff, znew, and gzeze supplemental scripts in the gzip package. These flaws could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

A similar problem was fixed last year (CAN-2003-0367) in which this same problem was found in znew. At that time, Mandrakesoft also used mktemp to correct the problems in gzexe. This update uses mktemp to handle temporary files in the zdiff script.



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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0970
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Updated Packages:

Mandrakelinux 10.0:
90bed38351f26f8ba6407aaf994bf32f 10.0/RPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
040cd4de118139d83a3eb0c9f69455d6 10.0/SRPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.100mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.0/AMD64:
3948d5261fdae9eb41492090e2037d8a amd64/10.0/RPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.100mdk.amd64.rpm
040cd4de118139d83a3eb0c9f69455d6 amd64/10.0/SRPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.100mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1:
daebea05aa9aee97b129cf70c33da39e 10.1/RPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
82b00b5e80d75f9be44faefee7030548 10.1/SRPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64:
cb67ff9bdd9077105952417e4af9b0f9 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
82b00b5e80d75f9be44faefee7030548 x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.101mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 2.1:
8f06248061b9ac6dd4460e94e263b077 corporate/2.1/RPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-11.3.C21mdk.i586.rpm
30ef2298b4dc0582f0d5004cba2313fe corporate/2.1/SRPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-11.3.C21mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 2.1/x86_64:
e11f60108a7efc0bd917afdb4398b438 x86_64/corporate/2.1/RPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-11.3.C21mdk.x86_64.rpm
30ef2298b4dc0582f0d5004cba2313fe x86_64/corporate/2.1/SRPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-11.3.C21mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.2:
3a58262efc591b05714489fdf7aa764a 9.2/RPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.92mdk.i586.rpm
50afab34a696bf740aeaf999a65d660b 9.2/SRPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.92mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.2/AMD64:
ef5b7fd75554c4d1b125036e2341bc55 amd64/9.2/RPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.92mdk.amd64.rpm
50afab34a696bf740aeaf999a65d660b amd64/9.2/SRPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-13.1.92mdk.src.rpm

Multi Network Firewall 8.2:
d65c27535c3013ec5022e15f1153dc06 mnf8.2/RPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-11.3.M82mdk.i586.rpm
6997833b18051d19123abc2d03d5147b mnf8.2/SRPMS/gzip-1.2.4a-11.3.M82mdk.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandrakesoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrakelinux Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandrakelinux at:

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_linux-mandrake.com