Debian 3.0: DSA-704-1 Critical: Remstats Input Sanitization Threat

When processing uptime data on the unix-server a temporary file is
opened in an insecure fashion which could be used for a symlink
attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions
of the remstats user.

CAN-2005-0388

The remoteping service can be exploited to execute arbitrary
commands due to missing input sanitising.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.00a4-8woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.13a-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your remstats packages.


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 a...