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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2002.038 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA-105-1 enscript creates temporary files insecurely 21 January 2002 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: enscript Vendor: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 Linux UNIX Platform: Alpha ARM i386 Motorola 680x0 PowerPC SPARC Impact: Overwrite Arbitrary Files Reduced Security Access Required: Existing Account - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-105-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman January 21, 2002 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : enscript Problem type : insecure temporary files Debian-specific: no The version of enscript (a tool to convert ASCII text to different formats) has been found to create temporary files insecurely. This has been fixed in version 1.6.2-4.1 . wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato - - --------------------------------- Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/enscript_1.6.2-4.1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: 9804afe6e88ce01c401e7ba69c16f499 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/enscript_1.6.2-4.1.dsc MD5 checksum: 45d3c704006ac4f5782af606c85950f8 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/enscript_1.6.2.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 823e5eec421350c91bd5e65ebdc9fa7f Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: de76734dc050b25b7e910373c8952b4e ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_arm.deb MD5 checksum: 30a6f887dcfe58b03683dfceb36891ae Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 6eb940c410f2363a35fc0ba29bd03e6b Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: 411d2c7f1dda66b5ae1e560b664063e0 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_powerpc.deb MD5 checksum: ea2a8299d261a0bdc33c7b26d2a5adde Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/enscript_1.6.2-4.1_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: e53fc25a3f3788f2063c8b5490aaeb24 These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - - -- - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBPEtbt6jZR/ntlUftAQF+8wL+KzyCUIOESEAEL8DxwzvAUoBPphvZhBfM +Wn2XSKzMKTEotAqxaiTEnGqLuu+4UpsWvP/SIYRQu6ReYyej9En2ULSYFd3lT1C ohMoghVTneo+m4VWKx3LZB7eREkiiwaW =2rW6 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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