Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:54:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Stone mstone@osgiliath.ddts.net
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-011-1] New version of mgetty released
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.