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Debian Security Advisory DSA-037-1 security@debian.org
Debian -- Security Information Martin Schulze
March 7, 2001
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Package : nextaw, xaw3d, xaw95
Vulnerability : insecure tempfile handling
Type : local insecure tempfile bug
Debian-specific: no
Fixed version : nextaw 0.5.1-34potato1
xaw3d 1.3-6.9potato1
xaw95 1.1-4.6potato1
It has been reported that the AsciiSrc and MultiSrc widget in the
Athena widget library handle temporary files insecurely. Joey Hess
has ported the bugfix from XFree86 to these Xaw replacements
libraries.
We recommend you upgrade your nextaw, xaw3d and xaw95 packages.
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, though, is only fixed for i386 and
m68k. The version for sparc is still vulnerable and isn't
maintained anymore.
Source archives:
MD5 checksum: 39f64281940612d3fcd9caab2e577aec
MD5 checksum: 8f4d5420ccb9a10eeba1bbbbf4039618
MD5 checksum: ca6b7f0cd5929c67d31bec1cc85597fd
MD5 checksum: a0253eff70f0e295471a57b085475b94
MD5 checksum: d058e2bcf84375b47237c731b2226ed6
MD5 checksum: 9475773be43a669ef347bd5b99f9ff7c
MD5 checksum: 8e2814e26829f8618407bddc2a8139a0
MD5 checksum: e1e851e56e8bd55e7aa7ad75d53e1795
MD5 checksum: e0983faf630fa74dfa2c0d5ed10635ea
Intel ia32 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 8d4c42a419d12058a81a4875c0482683
MD5 checksum: b8d4405cf60e0cdae4a67078c3c5df54
MD5 checksum: c2d82fd02430195fb2e2f63dea884b37
MD5 checksum: da8c800a7e533970914beea1288eac86
MD5 checksum: f44322639de2bcb5049fa3360602fb79
MD5 checksum: ad465ec7dd6b7cdf155da49ed40fd0f1
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 0cecbd698a8f2c38d9853b8955375278
MD5 checksum: 80961f0094a9e150354a44c80a2aedcb
MD5 checksum: 48e1ab6da9de7decca460c4bcd0ed0db
MD5 checksum: bf128f7f8b208e65e40b66e39ad895c8
MD5 checksum: 1a18260226eb093deb72a249b20c8dc4
MD5 checksum: 66bc729de8b5ac24e81679a223aab3c6
Sun Sparc architecture:
Not fixed, not maintained.
These files will be moved into
soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory .
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