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The version of nvi that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has an error in the default /etc/init.d/nviboot script: it did not handle filenames with embedded spaces correctly. This made it possible to remove files in the root directory by creating entries in /var/tmp/vi.recover. Debian security homepage here.

The version of nvi that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has an error in the default /etc/init.d/nviboot script: it did not handle filenames with embedded spaces correctly. This made it possible to remove files in the root directory by creating entries in /var/tmp/vi.recover. Debian security homepage here.