Package : kdeedu Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2101
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discoverd that langen2kvhtml from the kvoctrain package from the kdeedu suite creates temporary files in an insecure fashion. This leaves them open for symlink attacks.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by these problems.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 3.3.2-3.sarge.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your kvoctrain 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 - --------------------------------