Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 20:45 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> I would like to fix #736359 / CVE-2014-1638 in Squeeze.  According to
> the security tracker, the security team has classified the bug as
> "minor" and declared it does not need a DSA[1].
> 
> The problem is that localepurge would create tmp files in an unsafe
> way.  This allows a local user to have root destroy arbitrary files on the
> system (via a race-condition) during upgrades and purge of localepurge.

Please go ahead; thanks.

Regards,

Adam


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