Package : lm-sensors Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2672] Debian Bug : 324193
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that a script of lm-sensors, utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors, creates a temporary file with a predictable filename, leaving it vulnerable for a symlink attack.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1-1sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your lm-sensors 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 - --------------------------------