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Debian 2.2 DSA-046-2 Critical: Exuberant-Ctags Temporary File Risk

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2001
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Explore critical details on the enhanced exuberant-ctags vulnerability affecting Debian and secure your system immediately.
Colin Phipps discovered that the exuberant-ctags packages as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 creates temporary files insecurely

Summary

Package : exuberant-ctags
Problem type : recompile of sparc package
Debian-specific: yes

The updated exuberant-ctags that was mentioned in DSA-046-1 was
unfortunately compiled incorrectly: the stable chroot we used
turned out to be running unstable instead.

A new package with version 1:3.2.4-0.1.1 has been made that is
correctly compiled.

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

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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This advisory only updated the sparc package.

Sun Sparc architecture:


Thise file will be moved into stable on its next revision.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory .

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apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org




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