Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:27:52 +0100
From: Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>
To: Debian Security Announcements <debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org>
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 022-1] New version of exmh released

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-022-1                       security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                               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:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/exmh_2.1.1-1.1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 67cd5c52498b1dc120b608b151cbd44c
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/exmh_2.1.1-1.1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 36f91fba778ff68881adb4022ae99403
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/exmh_2.1.1.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: f3c6eedfa5720e236389e22234a57c24

  Architecture independent:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/exmh_2.1.1-1.1_all.deb
      MD5 checksum: 326c6374703977be603579435d328cf8


  These files will be moved into
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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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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