A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
The following packages are affected:
gettext
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 0.14.1-2ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the gettext package. The programs "autopoint" and "gettextize" created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.