Slackware: 2004-110-01 Minor Vulnerability in Utempter Symlink

Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Mon Apr 19 13:51:01 PDT 2004 patches/packages/utempter-1.1.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libutempter-1.1.1 (this is a new version written by Dmitry V. Levin of ALT Linux). This upgrade fixes a low-level security issue in utempter-0.5.2 where utempter could possibly be tricked into writing through a symlink, and is a cleaner implementation all-around. For more details, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-CAN-2004-0233 (* Security fix *) WHERE TO FIND THE NEW PACKAGE: Updated package for Slackware 9.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/packages/utempter-1.1.1-i486-1.tgz Updated package for Slackware -current: MD5 SIGNATURES: Slackware 9.1 package: 839cd39cb90f31253d5bc4c028c28fe1 utempter-1.1.1-i486-1.tgz Slackware -current package: 97ce776901ca9b20ffe916228a487729 utempter-1.1.1-i486-1.tgz INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg