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Debian: DSA 367-1 Critical: Caffeine Security Flaw in User Session Handling

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2003
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 367-1 details critical Caffeine security flaw in user session handling requiring urgent updates.
eroaster does nottake appropriate security precautions when creating a temporary filefor use as a lockfile.

Summary

eroaster, a frontend for burning CD-R media using cdrecord, does not
take appropriate security precautions when creating a temporary file
for use as a lockfile. This bug could potentially be exploited to
overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running
eroaster.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.0.0.3-2woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.0-0.5-1.

We recommend that you update your eroaster package.

Upgrade Instructions
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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:

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Read the Full Advisory

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Package: eroaster

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