Debian: net-acct insecure temporary file creation
Summary
Stefan Nordhausen has identified a local security hole in net-acct, a
user-mode IP accounting daemon. Old and redundant code from some time
way back in the past created a temporary file in an insecure fashion.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.71-5woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.71-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your net-acct 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
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Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 562 72c93549d6dd86d7365d206706ff9a62
Size/MD5 checksum: 9950 ab1dd923a4e18d520793c34738d2a8f4
Size/MD5 checksum: 44741 87daae6d4b06144534205b3fc201c058
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 52922 339d98c59e34655dc8762e076251fbd3
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 50096 f7a21521634202264dacfae238716bf5
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 49346 c90d2f7b3f777905c5f8f90f8edd6b57
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 58530 df761be43caec7fa543d37279c265afd
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 51702 145f469e3c2bfae125ff4e0a23729a0a
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 46882 e1dabe763136c5cfd0b04de8fd691fb7
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 49332 7393517e4ac4f83e0fbc6efda5118a2f
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 49380 60ae8a7d4c1265fb07adaaf6d49cbe2f
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 49824 3442f397b0db858aa4bfb9e4d418a5f4
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 47688 69c06b385a4ff25df34dd60052c88fc4
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 51684 083a1078e261fd3621f37f17c8305885
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.