Debian DSA 661-1 Critical: f2c Insecure Files Symlink Attack
debian
January 27, 2005
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project
discovered that f2c and fc, which are both part of the f2c package, a
fortran 77 to C/C++ translator, open...
Topics Covered
Summary
Multiple insecure temporary files in the f2c translator.
CAN-2005-0018
Two insecure temporary files in the f2 shell script.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 20010821-3.1
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your f2c 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
Size/MD5 checksum: 519 c245d8c55d5bc7686fb424ba83ad33dc
Size/MD5 checksum: 28688 ae7f2dc8def540a029f796c6de397af1
Siz...
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