Debian: DSA-053-1 Critical: Nedit Insecure Temporary File Issue

Package : nedit
Problem type : insecure temporary file
Debian-specific: no

The nedit (Nirvana editor) package as shipped in the non-free section
accompanying Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato had a bug in its printing code:
when printing text it would create a temporary file with the to be
printed text and pass that on to the print system. The temporary file
was not created safely, which could be exploited by an attacked to make
nedit overwrite arbitrary files.

This has been fixed in version 5.02-7.1.

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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

Source archives:

MD5 checksum: 82b90eea8263fd3f6140b40737f1fc16

MD5 checksum: e14d25693dab3e329a93bdca10a45f03

MD5 checksum: 2d8d0a8ec173fde6d574ffef40bbc524

Alpha architecture:

MD5 checksum: 18b921a22b20423e1e10ea59...