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Debian Security Advisory DSA 945-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 17th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : antiword
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3126
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit project
discovered that two scripts in antiword, utilities to convert Word
files to text and Postscript, create a temporary file in an insecure
fashion.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.32-2woody0.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.35-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.35-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your antiword package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
