[SECURITY] [DSA 500-1] New flim packages fix insecure temporary file creation

From: Matt Zimmerman (mdz_at_debian.org)
Date: 05/02/04

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA 500-1 security@debian.org
    http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
    May 1st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : flim
    Vulnerability : insecure temporary file
    Problem-Type : local
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0422

    Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered a vulnerability in flim, an emacs library
    for working with internet messages, where temporary files were created
    without taking appropriate precautions. This vulnerability could
    potentially be exploited by a local user to overwrite files with the
    privileges of the user running emacs. the 'chroot' option.

    For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
    fixed in version 1.14.3-9woody1.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

    We recommend that you update your flim 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/f/flim/flim_1.14.3-9woody1.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum: 576 e355dde8fc5dfb1b6b86504ad98ecb3f
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3-9woody1.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum: 8044 71ee1b83fab4c323625b1dbd34a84497
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum: 165844 5931a530506e944f0605aeb022b5b97c

      Architecture independent components:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flim/flim_1.14.3-9woody1_all.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 156874 525f828cc8022e80601cb5c67d10b482

      These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
      its next revision.

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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/>
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