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[DSA622] DSA-622-1 htmlheadline

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-622-1 htmlheadline

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project
has discovered multiple insecure uses
of temporary files that could lead to overwriting arbitrary files via
a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 21.8-3.
The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain this package.
We recommend that you upgrade your htmlheadline package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-622
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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