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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1187-1 (migrationtools)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to migrationtools announced via advisory DSA 1187-1. Jason Hoover discovered that migrationtools, a collection of scripts to migrate user data to LDAP creates several temporary files insecurely, which might lead to denial of service through a symlink attack.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 46-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 46-2.1. We recommend that you upgrade your migrationtools package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201187-1