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Debian Security Advisory 001-1                       security@debian.org

http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman

November 29, 2000

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Package        : ed

Problem type   : symlink attack

Debian-specific: no



Alan Cox discovered that GNU ed (a classed line editor tool)

created temporary files unsafely. This has been fixed in version

0.2-18.1.



wget url

        will fetch the file for you

dpkg -i file.deb

        will install the referenced file.





Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

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  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.



  Source archives:

    ed_0.2-18.1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 8f5e75fa0f1a8bcb5b2543aae5959701

    ed_0.2-18.1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 311df85a3e80149b92f9070301eae1b9

    ed_0.2.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: ddd57463774cae9b50e70cd51221281b



  Alpha architecture:

    ed_0.2-18.1_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 36c073a80dd76df83d340208eaf890bf



  ARM architecture:

    ed_0.2-18.1_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 73ffc5a13a0bc48f1a323cf84311caeb



  Intel ia32 architecture:

    ed_0.2-18.1_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: bb6dbb9648a71c56d2cf1eb353407acf



  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    ed_0.2-18.1_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 5bc6b3054a5c995656153aa1b9e5509b



  PowerPC architecture:

    ed_0.2-18.1_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: caf9df91afac75c11264d1ebb70e56cb



  Sun Sparc architecture:

    ed_0.2-18.1_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: a940e903a4e3ae47dfbe5e5bc953e423



  These files will be moved into

  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.



For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate

directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .



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dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main

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