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Ubuntu: DSA 634-1 Important: Api Insecure Cache Vulnerability Risk

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2005
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 highlights vulnerabilities in temporary file management which could allow for symlink exploitation.
Peter Samuelson, upstream maintainer of bmv, a PostScript viewer for SVGAlib, discovered that temporary files are created in an insecure fashion
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-17.

We recommend that you upgrade your bmv packages.


Upgrade Instructions
--------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
-------------------------------- Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 565 7b056960fafe4fca7c72083788cf5844
Size/MD5 checksum: 11811 ab4e7218ce67de842d3a78e1c8e11caf
Size/MD5 checksum: 50755 40c881800edac6b1d2ce75ea8da6e6b4

Intel IA-32 architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 21762 b625704138829c0dcd96a25e0a7f365b

The...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: bmv
CVE ID: CAN-2003-0014

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security advisory critical debian symlink attack bmv insecure temporary file PostScript viewer

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