Debian: DSA 256-1 Moderate: adb2mhc Insecure Temp File Risk

It has been discovered that adb2mhc from the mhc-utils package. The
default temporary directory uses a predictable name. This adds a
vulnerability that allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary
files the users has write permissions for.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.25+20010625-7.1.

For the old stable distribution (potato) does not contain mhc
packages.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.25+20030224-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mhc-utils packages.


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.


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