Debian Security Advisory

DSA-945-1 antiword -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

17 Jan 2006

Affected Packages:

antiword

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3126.

More information:

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that two scripts in antiword, utilities to convert Word files to text and Postscript, create a temporary file in an insecure fashion.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.32-2woody0.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.35-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.35-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your antiword package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2woody0_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.35-2sarge1_sparc.deb

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