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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2005.0004 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 622-1
New htmlheadline package fixes insecure temporary files
3 January 2005
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: htmlheadline
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Linux variants
Impact: Overwrite Arbitrary Files
Access: Existing Account
CVE Names: CAN-2004-1181
Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-622
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 622-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 3rd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : htmlheadline
Vulnerability : insecure temporary files
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2004-1181
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña has discovered multiple insecure uses
of temporary files that could lead to overwriting arbitrary files via
a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 21.8-3.
The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain this package.
We recommend that you upgrade your htmlheadline package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/htmlheadline/htmlheadline_21.8-3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 579 36da72a4ff991d7646a77eb7d8789f8a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/htmlheadline/htmlheadline_21.8-3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 5383 8c098ae1c43cf8f5f702191864e29b84
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/htmlheadline/htmlheadline_21.8.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 42360 319b218bd8c787a1455540a85428adc6
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/htmlheadline/htmlheadline_21.8-3_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 44570 c55c6906ba256b1731d8d6c5a151eaf1
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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