The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1269-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
March 18th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : lookup-el
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0237
Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that Lookup, a search interface to
electronic dictionaries on emacsen, creates a temporary file in an
insecure fashion when the ndeb-binary feature is used, which allows a
local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-3sarge1.
For the testing distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your lookup-el 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 at the end of this advisory:
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 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lookup-el/lookup-el_1.4-3sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 585 2daf45b112f1b688658faf610308962e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lookup-el/lookup-el_1.4-3sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 7115 f27e58e4ea0df6b08e808624a8fcb4e2
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lookup-el/lookup-el_1.4.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 349751 05d12aa8921969b449a6f2a47bb00247
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lookup-el/lookup-el_1.4-3sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 228002 30c9393256c1029e3742892e3bc16a6f
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/<pkg>
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