Debian: Security Advisory For Man2html Critical File Overwrite Risk
debian
December 13, 1999
Former versions of man2html uses a static file in /tmp for writing.
This can lead into overwriting system files if a malicious user has
created a symbolic link to it before upgradi...
Summary
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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Source archives:
MD5 checksum: 53cdbc6fbe63572343ae3d614231d645
MD5 checksum: d2b1dad5ea16a1b108922d0d5141c2d3
Alpha architecture:
MD5 checksum: 20c0e49d6f2103d826c1672f6413e6a1
Intel ia32 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 0a34bb26fbdae8aba227975fb7d36431
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 86a22c1e1710fccdd8734b24aa035bc0
Sun Sparc architecture:
MD5 checksum: bc15c8fa1ce8c0e1741c932d5d88ef9a
Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias potato
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Source archives:
1.5-19.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: a0d8f044c5738f9a3d3fd5b55bdc4280
MD5 checksum: 276dc18f9c007d800e280254a75eb304
.5.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 2fc4ee65395122b5552473cd62876924
Alpha architecture:
MD5 checksum: 27c65533b58d2efa66f6ad03190aaa40
ARM arch...
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