Debian: DSA 160-1 Critical: Scrollkeeper File Manipulation Risk

Spybreak discovered a problem in scrollkeeper, a free electronic
cataloging system for documentation. The scrollkeeper-get-cl program
creates temporary files in an insecure manner in /tmp using guessable
filenames. Since scrollkeeper is called automatically when a user
logs into a Gnome session, an attacker with local access can easily
create and overwrite files as another user.

This problem has been fixed in version 0.3.6-3.1 for the current
stable distribution (woody) and in version 0.3.11-2 for the unstable
distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not
affected, since it doesn't contain the scrollkeeper package.

We recommend that you upgrade your scrollkeeper packages immediately.

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 pac...