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Debian Security Advisory DSA-041-1                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
March  9, 2001
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Package        : joe
Problem type   : local exploit
Debian-specific: no

Christer Öberg of Wkit Security AB found a problem in joe (Joe's
Own Editor). joe will look for a configuration file in three
locations: the current directory, the users homedirectory ($HOME)
and in /etc/joe. Since the configuration file can define commands
joe will run (for example to check spelling) reading it from
the current directory can be dangerous: an attacker can leave
a .joerc file in a writable directory, which would be read when
a unsuspecting user starts joe in that directory.

This has been fixed in version 2.8-15.3 and we recommend that
you upgrade your joe package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
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/joe_2.8-15.3.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: cd6b006c8a2426ada62a6af1ddd001fe
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/joe_2.8-15.3.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 4f3b3a027cd8baf4c3b1a282b31cb5ed
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 84c1aebfce7876b8639945da3c29f204

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/joe_2.8-15.3_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: bb4f2753fa7b05f5877b7bad353ac7a4

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/joe_2.8-15.3_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 179c212d01bfaa898259028ce06a24a8

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/joe_2.8-15.3_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 39f680f8fde72d0958431f617e774123

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/joe_2.8-15.3_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 100db16eb2ff8aa43840cdde49d9b5a9

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/joe_2.8-15.3_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 425019054e7eb9b104e96ff351132bf3

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/joe_2.8-15.3_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 8f88ab48a61c0c9f5e955fdf0fc79d4e

  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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