[SECURITY] [DSA 622-1] New htmlheadline package fixes insecure temporary files

From: Martin Schulze (joey_at_infodrom.org)
Date: 01/03/05

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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/>

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