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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org

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

November 23, 2000

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Package        : gs

Problem type   : symlink attack

Debian-specific: no



ghostscript uses temporary files to do some of its work. Unfortunately

the method used to create those files wasn't secure: mktemp was used

to create a name for a temporary file, but the file was not opened

safely. A second problem is that during build the LD_RUN_PATH environment

variable was set to the empty string, which causes the dynamic linker

to look in the current directory for shared libraries.



Bot of these problems have been fixed in version 5.10-10.1.



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:

    gs_5.10-10.1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: d503b3f8f9c58407286a5c078480f435

    gs_5.10-10.1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: aeb2e42819a6a0db648c9549062db87a

    gs_5.10.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: b8dbc2595c06305f452a9c38bd0effef



  Alpha architecture:

    gs_5.10-10.1_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 72b77c03a2718fe983e177719242446f



  ARM architecture:

    gs_5.10-10.1_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 5b9b95200a1a0045599e2255ee717403



  Intel ia32 architecture:

    gs_5.10-10.1_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 567e56445bd8f483c8d46fc0d7dd89c3



  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    gs_5.10-10.1_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 7ea2f538d5aae483ef560975a27601e9



  PowerPC architecture:

    gs_5.10-10.1_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 4fcaf6cb5ade143468562f482c2482d2



  Sun Sparc architecture:

    gs_5.10-10.1_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 85c6eced60413022596098b57fcf2e58



  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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