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Category: Debian Local Security Checks Risk factor: High Added: 10 Oct 2008
Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the test.alert script used in one of the alert functions in mon, a system to monitor hosts or services and alert about problems, creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to a local denial of service through symlink attacks. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.2-9+etch2.


Solution: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1648
Risk factor: High

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