Debian 3.0: DSA 945-1 Critical: Antiword Insecure File Creation
debian
January 27, 2006
Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a from the Debian Security Audit project
discovered that two scripts in antiword, utilities to convert Word
files to text and Postscript, create ...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.35-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.35-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your antiword package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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
Size/MD5 checksum: 571 d01edffc36adede5a946ece9cc2e7b8a
Size/MD5 checksum: 7522 2054b50ce75109f2c8c659871a68282a
Size/MD5 checksum: 193652 35e691b8b2b43abdffcd10cc50fa57ea
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1...
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