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Ed is a simple command line editor that comes with many Linux distributions. Due to a security problem in this application it is possible for a local attacker to use a 'symlink attack' to cause other users to overwrite arbitrary system files.
Credit:
The information has been provided by Debian security announce .
Vulnerable systems:
Versions previous to 0.2-18.1
Ed creates temporary files in an insecure manner. This has been fixed in version 0.2-18.1 of ed.
An updated version of the ed packages are available for Debian users.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.
Source archives:
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 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/ed_0.2-18.1_alpha.deb
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/ed_0.2-18.1_arm.deb
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/ed_0.2-18.1_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/ed_0.2-18.1_m68k.deb
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/ed_0.2-18.1_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/ed_0.2-18.1_sparc.deb
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