Debian Security Advisory
DSA-001-1 ed -- symlink attack
- Date Reported:
- 29 Nov 2000
- Affected Packages:
- ed
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2000-1137.
- More information:
- Alan Cox discovered that GNU ed (a classic line editor tool) created temporary files unsafely. This has been fixed in version 0.2-18.1.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/ed_0.2-18.1.diff.gz
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/ed_0.2-18.1.dsc
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/ed_0.2.orig.tar.gz
- alpha:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/ed_0.2-18.1_alpha.deb
- arm:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/ed_0.2-18.1_arm.deb
- i386:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/ed_0.2-18.1_i386.deb
- m68k:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/ed_0.2-18.1_m68k.deb
- powerpc:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/ed_0.2-18.1_powerpc.deb
- sparc:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/ed_0.2-18.1_sparc.deb