remstats - tempfile, missing input sanitising

Jens Steube discovered several vulnerabilities in remstats, the remote
statistics system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems:

• CAN-2005-0387
  When processing uptime data on the unix-server a temporary file is
  opened in an insecure fashion which could be used for a symlink
  attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions
  of the remstats user.

• CAN-2005-0388
  The remoteping service can be exploited to execute arbitrary
  commands due to missing input sanitising.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.00a4-8woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.13a-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your remstats packages.