-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-022-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 26, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : exmh Vulnerability : local insecure tempfile creation Debian-specific: no Former versions of the exmh program used /tmp for storing temporary files. No checks were made to ensure that nobody placed a symlink with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to a symlink attack. This could lead to a malicious local user being able to overwrite any file writable by the user executing exmh. Upstream developers have reported and fixed this. The exmh program now use /tmp/login now unless TMPDIR or EXMHTMPDIR is set. We recommend you upgrade your exmh packages immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato - ------------------------------------ Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc architectures. This package does not contain any architecture dependent data (i.e. no compiled programs). Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/exmh_2.1.1-1.1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: 67cd5c52498b1dc120b608b151cbd44c http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/exmh_2.1.1-1.1.dsc MD5 checksum: 36f91fba778ff68881adb4022ae99403 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/exmh_2.1.1.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: f3c6eedfa5720e236389e22234a57c24 Architecture independent: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/exmh_2.1.1-1.1_all.deb MD5 checksum: 326c6374703977be603579435d328cf8 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/ . - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6caV8W5ql+IAeqTIRAsyaAJ9SS1Mo9F4VuYNzoN+tlt1iOS3NagCferdQ zi6kbLkX8XIpfXC/jbu5vP8= =8f0R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org