Debian: 754-1 Moderate: Centericq Symlink Attack Details
debian
July 13, 2005
Eric Romang discovered that centericq, a text-mode multi-protocol instant messenger client, creates some temporary files with predictable filenames and is hence vulnerable to symli...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.20.0-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.20.0-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your centericq package.
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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 875 ff3553a853e9dea97f75125500f39fd6
Size/MD5 checksum: 100900 b6a5e2debfafc7d8473fe81f0711a831
Size/MD5 checksum: 1796894 874165f4fbd40e3be677bdd1696cee9d
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 165...
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