On Wed, 7 May 2003 10:35:45 +0200, Rudolph van Graan wrote: >... For example on one of my "stable" machines, >the following happens when I do apt-get upgrade -u: > >The following packages will be upgraded > kdewallpapers mime-support >2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >Need to get 0B/1030kB of archives. After unpacking 105kB will be freed. >Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > >Obviously neither is of real security importance
The mime-support update *is* a security update ! See http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-292 "When a temporary file is to be used it is created insecurely" "allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files" So if you're the only user on the machine then I suppose you needn't worry. Cheers Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- There is no spoon.
