-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-053-1 securityat_private http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman April 27, 2001 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : nedit Problem type : insecure temporary file Debian-specific: no The nedit (Nirvana editor) package as shipped in the non-free section accompanying Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato had a bug in its printing code: when printing text it would create a temporary file with the to be printed text and pass that on to the print system. The temporary file was not created safely, which could be exploited by an attacked to make nedit overwrite arbitrary files. This has been fixed in version 5.02-7.1. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/source/nedit_5.02-7.1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: 82b90eea8263fd3f6140b40737f1fc16 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/source/nedit_5.02-7.1.dsc MD5 checksum: e14d25693dab3e329a93bdca10a45f03 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/source/nedit_5.02.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 2d8d0a8ec173fde6d574ffef40bbc524 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-alpha/nedit_5.02-7.1_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: 18b921a22b20423e1e10ea599f8e98a3 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-arm/nedit_5.02-7.1_arm.deb MD5 checksum: 748d639bc26e810a23fb4911b5a93da0 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-i386/nedit_5.02-7.1_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 1ad6fee0f55443820817b6a7e702afbf Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-m68k/nedit_5.02-7.1_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: eecbe4dd085e4d3588d1b1e2ce394af7 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-powerpc/nedit_5.02-7.1_powerpc.deb MD5 checksum: abb9cbbee1abf13ba7d7cbcc16caf07a Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/non-free/binary-sparc/nedit_5.02-7.1_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: cc465ff49985a82cd150fb38f449f75b These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ . - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announceat_private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOuihw6jZR/ntlUftAQG9QwL/aJ/aSrN/rBGfg3tg2Q5IxreH67klTWed no439vZiR8ORJEJdW9rtYyqJt8rW0ZlVdG4QRATXXH8ibZuIYagttqurgFtlpHnc rCu3FvKvNZvecfyAvYtM7F3/eFj1ZyS9 =Fq0C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-requestat_private with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmasterat_private
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