Debian Security Advisory - ghostscript uses temporary files to do some of its work. Unfortunately the method used to create those files wasn't secure: mktemp was used to create a name for a temporary file, but the file was not opened safely. A second problem is that during build the LD_RUN_PATH environment variable was set to the empty string, which causes the dynamic linker to look in the current directory for shared libraries.
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Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman
November 23, 2000
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Package : gs
Problem type : symlink attack
Debian-specific: no
ghostscript uses temporary files to do some of its work. Unfortunately
the method used to create those files wasn't secure: mktemp was used
to create a name for a temporary file, but the file was not opened
safely. A second problem is that during build the LD_RUN_PATH environment
variable was set to the empty string, which causes the dynamic linker
to look in the current directory for shared libraries.
Bot of these problems have been fixed in version 5.10-10.1.
wget url
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dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/gs_5.10-10.1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: d503b3f8f9c58407286a5c078480f435
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/gs_5.10-10.1.dsc
MD5 checksum: aeb2e42819a6a0db648c9549062db87a
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/gs_5.10.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: b8dbc2595c06305f452a9c38bd0effef
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/gs_5.10-10.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 72b77c03a2718fe983e177719242446f
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/gs_5.10-10.1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 5b9b95200a1a0045599e2255ee717403
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/gs_5.10-10.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 567e56445bd8f483c8d46fc0d7dd89c3
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/gs_5.10-10.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 7ea2f538d5aae483ef560975a27601e9
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/gs_5.10-10.1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 4fcaf6cb5ade143468562f482c2482d2
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/gs_5.10-10.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 85c6eced60413022596098b57fcf2e58
These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .
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