Debian: DSA-008-1 Critical Symlink Attack In Dialog Software

Package : dialog
Problem type : insecure temporary files
Debian-specific: no

Matt Kraai reported that he found a problem in the way dialog
creates lock-files: it did not create them safely which made it
susceptible to a symlink attack.

This has been fixed in version 0.9a-20000118-3bis.

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dpkg -i file.deb
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

Source archives:


-3bis.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 78b6e69859bc18f738982d4f1bd390c7


-3bis.dsc
MD5 checksum: 9bd63778ae6f295d9c06d22ac5910b92


.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: ffa7381631cb24aa5d61dab7f2f1245b

Alpha architecture:


000118-3bis_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 57c04e1f8dec33de5dffee92d0b162cb

ARM architecture:

0118-3bis_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 5735033a17262209a1130459229a0982

Intel ia32 architecture:


00118-3bis_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: f38bbfaa0076a590fe2421eb2...