Debian: 'xsane' Insecure temporary file vulnerability
Summary
Tim Waugh found several insecure uses of temporary files in the xsane
program, which is used for scanning. This was fixed for Debian/stable
by moving those files into a securely created directory within the
/tmp directory.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.50-5.1 for the stable Debian
distribution and in version 0.84-0.1 for the testing and unstable
distribution of Debian.
We recommend that you upgrade your xsane package.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
MD5 checksum: 95deb77d4120c18c8d6c52b694e30d63
MD5 checksum: c4601eb08536a8deeb8b49630f948cc6
MD5 checksum: 768fbd482f15ca0b081f19f7bc15d76f
Alpha architecture:
MD5 checksum: baf8ef6879863e43d49aec409c515da9
ARM architecture:
MD5 checksum: 994e6eaa747f04b85a0f953b14de1445
Intel ia32 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 069983f5340d5524a78b4bd896c6edb5
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 4057804c6ccc359567e25bbecdbe4e22
PowerPC architecture:
MD5 checksum: bab3f792a4abac83ea921539a79d324f
Sun Sparc architecture:
MD5 checksum: f8cf97b74dfff2113e695ed4595cbe9e
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.