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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-243-1 January 16, 2006 tuxpaint vulnerability CVE-2005-3340 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) The following packages are affected: tuxpaint The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:0.9.14-2ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that the tuxpaint-import.sh script created a temporary file in an insecure way. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running tuxpaint.