Debian: DSA 1003-1 Critical: Xpvm Insecure Temporary File Attack
debian
March 16, 2006
Eric Romang discoverd that xpvm, a graphical console and monitor for PVM, creates a temporary file that allows local attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privi...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.5-7.3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.5-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your xpvm 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: 578 e23e82b7f0ff80c89f5d398487e9bae0
Size/MD5 checksum: 6818 9f38fd365ee274cbd6bf4e7a11f2e64f
Size/MD5 checksum: 193901 dfdaa0dc8433ab15d6899312c2355e56
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 192732 ...
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