Debian: gs-common insecure temporary file vulnerability
Summary
Paul Szabo discovered insecure creation of a temporary file in
ps2epsi, a script that is distributed as part of gs-common which
contains common files for different Ghostscript releases. ps2epsiuses
a temporary file in the process of invoking ghostscript. This file
was created in an insecure fashion, which could allow a local attacker
to overwrite files owned by a user who invokes ps2epsi.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.3.3.0woody1.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.3.3.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gs-common package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 522 16e9ffda57fcdb6c48e977e499fd8671
Size/MD5 checksum: 16202 9588ecfa64ccffdc50df77cdf282edc0
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 23008 77cc8798e636d26f6fa3a9913afc1de4
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show
