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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55899
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian Security Advisory DSA 903-1 (unzip)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to unzip announced via advisory DSA 903-1. Imran Ghory discovered a race condition in the permissions setting code in unzip. When decompressing a file in a directory an attacker has access to, unzip could be tricked to set the file permissions to a different file the user has permissions to. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.50-1woody4.;; This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT 'Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-903)' (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56143).
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to unzip announced via advisory DSA 903-1. Imran Ghory discovered a race condition in the permissions setting code in unzip. When decompressing a file in a directory an attacker has access to, unzip could be tricked to set the file permissions to a different file the user has permissions to. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.50-1woody4.

This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT 'Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-903)' (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56143).

Solution:
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.52-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.52-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your unzip package.

CVSS Score:
1.2

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2475
BugTraq ID: 14450
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14450
Bugtraq: 20050801 unzip TOCTOU file-permissions vulnerability (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112300046224117&w=2
Debian Security Information: DSA-903 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-903
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:197
http://www.osvdb.org/18530
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9975
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0203.html
SCO Security Bulletin: SCOSA-2005.39
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.39/SCOSA-2005.39.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/16309
http://secunia.com/advisories/16985
http://secunia.com/advisories/17006
http://secunia.com/advisories/17045
http://secunia.com/advisories/17342
http://secunia.com/advisories/17653
http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/32
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0053/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-191-1
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