Bug#737239: pu: package localepurge/0.6.3+deb7u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 19:01 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> I would like to fix #736359 / CVE-2014-1638 in Wheezy and Squeeze[0].
> 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. (Bearing in mind the impending window close for
7.4 this weekend.)

Regards,

Adam