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[DSA202] DSA-202-1 im

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-202-1 im

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that IM, which contains interface
commands and Perl libraries for E-mail and NetNews, creates temporary
files insecurely.
These problems have been fixed in version 141-18.1 for the current
stable distribution (woody), in version 133-2.2 of the old stable
distribution (potato) and in version 141-20 for the unstable
distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your IM package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-202
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 6307

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

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