Debian Security Advisory

DSA-001-1 ed -- symlink attack

Date Reported:

29 Nov 2000

Affected Packages:

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:

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