Debian: New lookup-el packages fix insecure temporary file
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1269-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 18th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : lookup-el Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-0237 Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that Lookup, a search interface to electronic dictionaries on emacsen, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion when the ndeb-binary feature is used, which allows a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-3sarge1. For the testing distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-5. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-5. We recommend that you upgrade your lookup-el 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 at the end of this advisory: 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 585 2daf45b112f1b688658faf610308962e Size/MD5 checksum: 7115 f27e58e4ea0df6b08e808624a8fcb4e2 Size/MD5 checksum: 349751 05d12aa8921969b449a6f2a47bb00247 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 228002 30c9393256c1029e3742892e3bc16a6f These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org