Debian Security Advisory

DSA-941-1 tuxpaint -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:
16 Jan 2006
Affected Packages:
tuxpaint
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3340.
More information:

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that a script in tuxpaint, a paint program for young children, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain tuxpaint packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.14-2sarge0.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.15b-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tuxpaint package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint-data_0.9.14-2sarge0_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tuxpaint/tuxpaint_0.9.14-2sarge0_sparc.deb

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