| 1234567891011 | <sect2><title>Command explanations</title><para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ed-&ed-version;.patch:</userinput> Thispatch fixes a symlink vulnerability in ed. The ed executable creates filesin /tmp with predictable names. By using various symlink attacks, it ispossible to have ed write to files it should not, change the permissionsof files, etc.</para></sect2>
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