Debian Security Advisory DSA 279-1 (metrics)

The remote host is missing an update to metrics announced via advisory DSA 279-1. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

DSA-279 metrics - insecure temporary file creation

Paul Szabo and Matt Zimmerman discovered two similar problems in metrics, a tools for software metrics. Two scripts in this package, "halstead" and "gather\stats", open temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. "halstead" is installed as a user program, while "gather\stats"...