Debian: [UPDATED] 'exuberant-ctags' vulnerability

Colin Phipps discovered that the exuberant-ctags packages as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 creates temporary files insecurely. The updated exuberant-ctags that was mentioned in DSA-046-1 was unfortunately compiled incorrectly.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-046-2                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
https://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
April 19, 2001
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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:
     https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/exuberant-ctags_3.2.4-0.1.1_sparc.deb

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

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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