Debian 2.2: 001-1 Moderate Advisory: Ed Symlink Attack Resolved

Package : ed
Problem type : symlink attack
Debian-specific: no

Alan Cox discovered that GNU ed (a classed line editor tool)
created temporary files unsafely. This has been fixed in version
0.2-18.1.

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


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

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

Source archives:


MD5 checksum: 8f5e75fa0f1a8bcb5b2543aae5959701

MD5 checksum: 311df85a3e80149b92f9070301eae1b9


MD5 checksum: ddd57463774cae9b50e70cd51221281b

Alpha architecture:


MD5 checksum: 36c073a80dd76df83d340208eaf890bf

ARM architecture:


MD5 checksum: 73ffc5a13a0bc48f1a323cf84311caeb

Intel ia32 architecture:


MD5 checksum: bb6dbb9648a71c56d2cf1eb353407acf

Motorola 680x0 architecture:


MD5 checksum: 5bc6b3054a5c995656153aa1b9e5509b

PowerPC architecture:


MD5 checksum: caf9df91afac75c11264d1ebb70e56cb

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