Debian alert: Revised security fix for joe

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-003-1                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
December  1, 2000
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Package        : joe
Problem type   : symlink attack
Debian-specific: no

The security fix for joe released on November 22, 2000 had a problem:
it created the DEADJOE file securily but didn't write anything to it.
This has been fixed in version 2.8.15.2 .

This is the text from the previous advisory:

When joe (Joe's Own Editor) dies due to a signal instead of a normal
exit it saves a list of the files it is editing to a file called `DEADJOE'
in its current directory. Unfortunately this wasn't done safely which made
joe vulnerable to a symlink attack.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/joe_2.8-15.2.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: e0e5bad921fef97ebe24b4fc6fba62d8
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/joe_2.8-15.2.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 7b17ccbe9b510fc16ccdffc6f6846d5b
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 84c1aebfce7876b8639945da3c29f204

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/joe_2.8-15.2_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: ac6e60b0dee9c3543c120441853ecba8

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/joe_2.8-15.2_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: fd96b9695eb552c8646a845d325c3a75

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/joe_2.8-15.2_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 01e7ec1c316974012d7a72fad3a18e83

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/joe_2.8-15.2_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: b2a43f9fddffec934e05f21216b3c73f

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/joe_2.8-15.2_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 9eb38138976d3acc8353e0a10631b45c

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/joe_2.8-15.2_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: de84f472e4304cb7a217348002a38036

  These files will be moved into
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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