Package : fbi Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1695 Debian Bug : 361370
Jan Braun discovered that the fbgs script of fbi, an image viewer for the framebuffer environment, creates an directory in a predictable manner, which allows denial of service through symlink attacks.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.23woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.01-1.2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your fbi 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 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------