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USN-254-1: noweb vulnerability

22 February 2006

noweb vulnerability

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Details

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that noweb scripts created
temporary files in an insecure way. This could allow a symlink attack
to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user
running noweb.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10
  • nowebm -
Ubuntu 5.04
  • nowebm -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • nowebm -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References