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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1187-1 (migrationtools)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

2.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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

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