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Debian 2.2: DSA-038-1 Critical: Sgml-Tools Insecure Tempfile Threat

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2001
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Issues related to unsafe management of temporary files in sgml-tools brought to attention by Debian Security Advisory DSA-038-3. Users advised to implement updates to reduce vulnerabilities.
Former versions of sgml-tools created temporary files directly in /tmp in an insecure fashion.

Summary

Former versions of sgml-tools created temporary files directly in /tmp
in an insecure fashion. Version 1.0.9-15 and higher create a
subdirectory first and open temporary files within that directory.

We recommend you upgrade your sgml-tools package.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
------------------------------------

Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
architectures.


Source archives:


MD5 checksum: 41187c94c4c112253543c50a834c223c

MD5 checksum: 5092e08e04f8ad13a594335a718490b4

MD5 checksum: 872d55460634c4e7fb84e06e946989c7

Intel ia32 architecture:


MD5 checksum: bc2d3d8eea05c1b0495724390b2099a4

Motorola 680x0 architecture:


MD5 checksum: b387d59f20d79d0ac37375e5b009c7e1

Sun Sparc architecture:


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Package: sgml-tools

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