Debian Security Advisory

DSA-555-1 freenet6 -- wrong file permissions

Date Reported:
30 Sep 2004
Affected Packages:
freenet6
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 254709.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0563.
More information:

Simon Josefsson noticed that the tspc.conf configuration file in freenet6, a client to configure an IPv6 tunnel to freenet6.net, is set world readable. This file can contain the username and the password used to contact the IPv6 tunnelbroker freenet6.net.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.6-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0-2.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your freenet6 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freenet6/freenet6_0.9.6-1woody2_sparc.deb

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