---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-011-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone January 10, 2001 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package: mgetty Vulnerability: insecure tempfile Debian-specific: no
Immunix reports that mgetty does not create temporary files in a secure manner, which could lead to a symlink attack. This has been corrected in mgetty 1.1.21-3potato1
We recommend you upgrade your mgetty package immediately.
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato ------------------------------------
Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc architectures.