Debian: DSA 630-1 Moderate: Lintian Insecure Temporary Directory

debian

January 10, 2005

Jeroen van Wolffelaar discovered a problem in lintian, the Debian package checker

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate debian local attack symlink insecure directory lintian

Summary

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.23.6.

We recommend that you upgrade your lintian package.

Upgrade Instructions
--------------------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: 505 03d54a4d67f1c784cbee0fdac29fd9d6
Size/MD5 checksum: 198277 886c05fe72a348ca3db23856c59bf8af

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 171384 bc968e0eeebad128e743d716e4bc10e7

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribu...