USN-5-1: gettext vulnerabilities
27 October 2004
gettext vulnerabilities
Releases
Details
Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the
gettext package. The programs "autopoint" and "gettextize" created
temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to
create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user
invoking the program.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 4.10
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gettext
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In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.