USN-254-1: noweb vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 5.10
• Ubuntu 5.04
• Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that noweb scripts created
temporary files in an insecure way. This could allow a symlink attack
to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user
running noweb.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10

• nowebm -

Ubuntu 5.04

• nowebm -

Ubuntu 4.10

• nowebm -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2005-3342