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Debian: DSA 362-1 Critical: MindI Insecure Temp Files Exploit

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2003
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To improve Mindi software security, we must fix the insecure temporary file vulnerability noted in Debian Security Notice DSA 362-1 by adopting secure file handling practices
mindi, a program for creating boot/root disks, does not takeappropriate security precautions when creating temporary files.

Summary

mindi, a program for creating boot/root disks, does not take
appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. This
bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with
the privileges of the user running mindi.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.58.r5-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
Refer to Debian bug #203825.

We recommend that you update your mindi 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:


Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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