Debian Security Advisory
DLA-366-1 arts -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 10 Dec 2015
- Affected Packages:
- arts
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-7543.
- More information:
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It has been reported that arts uses the insecure mktemp() function to create the temporary directory it uses to host user-specific sockets. It is thus possible for another user to hijack this temporary directory and gain IPC access it should not have.
In Debian 6
Squeeze
, this issue has been addressed in arts 1.5.9-3+deb6u1 with the use of the safer mkdtemp() function. We recommend that you upgrade your arts packages.Other Debian releases do not have the arts package.