Bug#495705: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
"Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Tags: patch, security > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, lintan maintainers! > please, see full discussion in -devel: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00271.html > for example, see the bug > http://bugs.d

Bug#495705: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-19 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
Package: lintian Tags: patch, security Severity: wishlist Hello, lintan maintainers! please, see full discussion in -devel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00271.html for example, see the bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494648 (if attacker m