[SECURITY] [DSA 633-1] New bmv package fixes insecure temporary file creation
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 633-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 11th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : bmv
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2003-0014
Peter Samuelson, upstream maintainer of bmv, a PostScript viewer for
SVGAlib, discovered that temporary files are created in an insecure
fashion. A malicious local user could cause arbitrary files to be
overwritten by a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.2-14.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-17.
We recommend that you upgrade your bmv packages.
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/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 565 7b056960fafe4fca7c72083788cf5844
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 11811 ab4e7218ce67de842d3a78e1c8e11caf
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 50755 40c881800edac6b1d2ce75ea8da6e6b4
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bmv/bmv_1.2-14.2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 21762 b625704138829c0dcd96a25e0a7f365b
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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