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Debian DSA 610-1: Cscope Insecure File Overwrite Risk Critical

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2004
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Users on your network could take advantage of cscope's inadequate file safety to modify files without authorization. Secure your systems promptly!
A vulnerability has been discovered in cscope, a program to interactively examine C source code, which may allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 15.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cscope 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 3.0 alias woody
-------------------------------- Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 593 92a1d4fc455afa78d855f61032726cfb
Size/MD5 checksum: 5750 2e991cad957c7fc76da2f6e05e02162d
Size/MD5 checksum: 196580 7540514aab8c0a3737ee8dd08a5422ba

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 129904 55a18b826ab935a85ff9b1151d7058cf

ARM arc...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: cscope
CVE ID: CAN-2004-0996

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