USN-5-1: gettext vulnerabilities
27 October 2004
gettext vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 4.10
Software Description
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
- gettext
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.