DSA 733-1: New crip packages fix insecure temporary files
Posted on: 06/30/2005 06:10 PM
New crip packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 733-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze June 30th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : crip Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0393 CERT advisory : BugTraq ID : Debian Bug :
Justin Rye discovered that crip, a terminal-based ripper, encoder and tagger tool, utilises temporary files in an insecure fashion in its helper scripts.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not provide the crip package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5-1sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5-1sarge2.
We recommend that you upgrade your crip 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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------