Package : centericq Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-1914 BugTraq ID : 14144
Eric Romang discovered that centericq, a text-mode multi-protocol instant messenger client, creates some temporary files with predictable filenames and is hence vulnerable to symlink attacks by local attackers.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.20.0-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.20.0-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your centericq 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 --------------------------------