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Debian Security Advisory DSA-022-1                       security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                                Martin Schulze
January 26, 2001
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Package        : exmh
Vulnerability  : local insecure tempfile creation
Debian-specific: no

Former versions of the exmh program used /tmp for storing temporary
files.  No checks were made to ensure that nobody placed a symlink
with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to
a symlink attack.  This could lead to a malicious local user being
able to overwrite any file writable by the user executing exmh.
Upstream developers have reported and fixed this.  The exmh program
now use /tmp/login now unless TMPDIR or EXMHTMPDIR is set.

We recommend you upgrade your exmh packages immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
  sparc architectures.  This package does not contain any architecture
  dependent data (i.e. no compiled programs).


  Source archives:

      
      MD5 checksum: 67cd5c52498b1dc120b608b151cbd44c
      
      MD5 checksum: 36f91fba778ff68881adb4022ae99403
      
      MD5 checksum: f3c6eedfa5720e236389e22234a57c24

  Architecture independent:

      
      MD5 checksum: 326c6374703977be603579435d328cf8


  These files will be moved into
     soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory    .

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