Debian DSA 960-1 Moderate: Insecure Temporary File Risk in Mail::Audit
debian
January 31, 2006
Niko Tyni discovered that the Mail::Audit module, a Perl library for
creating simple mail filters, logs to a temporary file with a
predictable filename in an insecure fashion whe...
Topics Covered
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1-5sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1-5sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libmail-audit-perl 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: 663 f1cc82dae98e2a7ae42e29e757797b41
Size/MD5 checksum: 5548 64f85349649a968db3493fa8ba27aea1
Size/MD5 checksum: 12526 3bc6043611f0fabdd856498e25bd48f6
Architecture independent components:
...
PREVIOUS
NEXT
Topics Covered
Get the latest News and Insights
Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.
Related News
Powered By
Linux Security - Your source for Top Linux News, Advisories, HOWTOs and Feature Releases
QUICK LINKS
subscribe to newsletters!
Like staying secure? So do we.
Sign up for updates, tips, and alerts!