ed symlink attack

[Ben Pfaff]

Hey Ed, did you notice that someone found that you have a
security hole?  Make sure to upgrade yourself quickly before it
gets exploited!

Ben

Original message:
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:14:47 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Package        : ed
Problem type   : symlink attack
Debian-specific: no

Alan Cox discovered that GNU ed (a classed line editor tool)
created temporary files unsafely. This has been fixed in version
0.2-18.1.

[much snippage]
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