Package : noweb Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3342
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that a script in noweb, a web like literate-programming tool, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9a-7.4.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10c-3.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10c-3.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your nowebm 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 - --------------------------------