Debian has released a security patch to correct a vulnerability identified in crip. The problem is that crip insecurely creates temporary files, which could be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Justin Rye
ChangeLog
2005-06-30 : Initial release
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