Debian 3.0: DSA 661-2 Critical: f2c Insecure Temporary Files Advisory

CAN-2005-0017

Multiple insecure temporary files in the f2c translator.

For the stable distribution (woody) and all others including testing
this problem has been fixed in version 20010821-3.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your f2c 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: 519 9b2bb4378799e59604236b0b3ac9d071
Size/MD5 checksum: 28846 2d49723d6a8e1ea4f67737dd031d34c0
Size/MD5 checksum: 416017 f2527aed84c8db35c883615c3b9b8511

Alpha architecture:

Siz...