[SECURITY] [DSA 1522-1] New xwine packages fix several vulnerabilities
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1526-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp
March 20, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : xwine
Vulnerability : various
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0930CVE-2008-0931
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered several local
vulnerabilities have been discovered in xwine, a graphical user interface
for the WINE emulator.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:
CVE-2008-0930 The xwine command makes unsafe use of local temporary files when
printing. This could allow the removal of arbitrary files belonging
to users who invoke the program.
CVE-2008-0931 The xwine command changes the permissions of the global WINE configuration
file such that it is world-writable. This could allow local users to edit
it such that arbitrary commands could be executed whenever any local user
executed a program under WINE.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version
1.0.1-1etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xwine 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 4.0 alias etch
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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>
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