Thanks but I don't follow xastir development. I fixed the Debian xastir version a while back and though it would be good to give something back. Good to know it is fixed in the upcoming version.
You may consider doing a new release soon. These kind of security issues may not have been noticed by other distributions who package xastir.
xastir contains scripts with errors which may be used by a user for damaging important system files or user's files. For example if a script uses in its work a temp file which is created in /tmp directory, then every user can create symlink with the same name in this directory in order to destroy or rewrite some system or user file. Symlink
attack may also lead not only to the...
