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Ubuntu alert USN-223-1 (inkscape)
=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-223-1 December 05, 2005 inkscape vulnerability CVE-2005-3885 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) The following packages are affected: inkscape The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 0.40-2ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that Inkscape's ps2epsi.sh script, which converts PostScript files to Encapsulated PostScript format, creates a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could exploit this with a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Inkscape. Source archives: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/inkscape/in... Size/MD5: 7572 50ddba7ed014ae75870d1e87fcf8318f http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/inkscape/in... Size/MD5: 859 e5630cb77d15e601517fe6a43451bbdb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/inkscape/in... Size/MD5: 5292595 11c549c0ffdd45db9f9fe62dfec162ce amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/inkscape/in... Size/MD5: 3987574 67e8cc45c5b45fccae06c081ab59b5da i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/inkscape/in... Size/MD5: 3898986 26b463fdc90342cd6418f103d6d1748e powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/inkscape/in... Size/MD5: 4107808 66d473b7c6ce5551f262006e83f40135 -- ubuntu-security-announce mailing list ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-... (Log in to post comments)
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