Debian Sarge DSA 941-1 Moderate: Tuxpaint Insecure File Creation Risk
debian
January 27, 2006
Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a from the Debian Security Audit project
discovered that a script in tuxpaint, a paint program for young
children, creates a temporary file in an...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.14-2sarge0.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.15b-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your tuxpaint 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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 749 33447b64d21e124dfbcab3626f0a2c09
Size/MD5 checksum: 6178 fe6d69b9df65fcb6c0f1015a39e6d715
Size/MD5 checksum: 3208894 0b7522c1b3672d5c233f7bbc772c8dec
Architecture independent components:
Size/M...
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