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Debian 3.1 DSA 901-1 Important: Gnump3d Remote Vulnerability Issue

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2005
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A critical alert for gnump3d on Debian systems highlights coding vulnerabilities and remote exploitation risks. Users should promptly secure installations and apply recommended patches
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Summary


Ludwig Nussel discovered several temporary files that are created
with predictable filenames in an insecure fashion and allows local
attackers to craft symlink attacks.

CVE-2005-3355

Ludwig Nussel discovered that the theme parameter to HTTP
requests may be used for path traversal.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a gnump3d package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.9.3-1sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.9.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnump3 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 upd...

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