Frank Lichtenheld discovered that the “texindex” program created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running texindex.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
6 October 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Frank Lichtenheld discovered that the “texindex” program created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running texindex.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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