Secure testing team - Feb 2009 - Bug#514386: iceweasel-firegpg: Vulnerability Affecting FireGPG Passphrase and Cleartext Recovery

Package: iceweasel-firegpg
Version: 0.5.dfsg-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

Hi, Debian is currently set to release iceweasel-firegpg in Lenny.
Unfortunately,
as the firegpg home page explains, version 0.5 suffers from some serious
security
problems. It seems that the gist of it is the unsafe creation and destruction of
3 temp files.

http://securityvulns.com/Udocument757.html

Upstream did not label their fixing of this in the upstream svn between 0.5.3
and
0.6.0. Three revisions are candidates for the fix: r464, r465, or r467. r467 is
the
most likely from a brief glance at the code. However, I do not have the time or
skill to pull the patch from those revisions that will fix this.

I am hopeful that we can get this resolved before Lenny releases without the
need
to pull the severely outdated iceweasel-firegpg package, but I''m not
sure if that
is possible.

Cheers,
Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, ''unstable'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash