Debian Security Advisory DSA 118-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
March 5th, 2002
Package : xsane Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no
Tim Waugh found several insecure uses of temporary files in the xsane program, which is used for scanning. This was fixed for Debian/stable by moving those files into a securely created directory within the /tmp directory.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.50-5.1 for the stable Debian distribution and in version 0.84-0.1 for the testing and unstable distribution of Debian.
We recommend that you upgrade your xsane package.
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 2.2 alias potato - ------------------------------------
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision.
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