Package : dhis-tools-dns Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3341
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that two scripts in the dhis-tools-dns package, DNS configuration utilities for a dynamic host information System, which are usually executed by root, create temporary files in an insecure fashion.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a dhis-tools-dns package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 5.0-3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 5.0-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your dhis-tools-dns 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 - --------------------------------