Debian: DSA 603-1 Critical: OpenSSL Local File Overwrite Risk
debian
December 1, 2004
Trustix developers discovered insecure temporary file creation in a supplemental script (der_chop) of the openssl package which may allow local users to overwrite files via a symli...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.7e-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl 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
-------------------------------- Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 632 602dbc2dbc2ca2030c00f2fe4974b2ff
Size/MD5 checksum: 45284 9099375084f05be1f16e29426e206c6c
Size/MD5 checksum: 2153980 c8261d93317635d56df55650c6aeb3dc
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 984 a582c62beb11f42b194720a...
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: openssl
CVE ID: CAN-2004-0975
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