Bug#496396: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-09-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, unfortunately I completely missed this bug because I had a relaxing from DebConf vacation and it must somehow vanished from my mailbox - so sorry for caring so late. Now I had a look at Arb packaging and have to admit I do not really understand which issue exactly fullfills the symlink

Bug#496396: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-09-22 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
On 08:36 Mon 22 Sep , Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, unfortunately I completely missed this bug because I had a relaxing from DebConf vacation and it must somehow vanished from my mailbox - so sorry for caring so late. Now I had a look at Arb packaging and have to admit I do not really

Bug#496396: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-24 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
Package: arb-common Severity: grave Hi, maintainer! This message about the error concerns a few packages at once. I've tested all the packages (for Lenny) on my Debian mirror. All scripts of packages (marked as executable) were tested. In some packages I've discovered scripts with errors