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Debian: DSA 615-1 Critical: Insecure Files In Debmake Package

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Calendar Grey December 22, 2004
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Ubuntu has released a security bulletin concerning vulnerabilities found in the apt package, providing information on the necessary patches.
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the debstd script from debmake, a deprecated helper package for Debian packaging, created temporary directories in an insecure manner
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.7.7.

We recommend that you upgrade your debmake 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: 497 fcbfe41a644d608b165a1e21ac578115
Size/MD5 checksum: 39960 9c32e99bb95f3d62d91fa613e282951a

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 44572 b15c79fd0c73a2d665628092eee19027


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribut...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: debmake
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1179

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