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

Debian Security Advisory DSA 622-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 3rd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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

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

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.

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: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;