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Debian alert DSA-1216-1 (flexbackup)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1216-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff November 20th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : flexbackup Vulnerability : insecure temporary file Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-4802 Debian Bug : 334350 Eric Romang discovered that the flexbackup backup tool creates temporary files in an insecure manner, which allows denial of service through a symlink attack. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-2sarge1 For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-3. We recommend that you upgrade your flexbackup package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flexbackup... Size/MD5 checksum: 587 06539319d0534272e216306562677723 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flexbackup... Size/MD5 checksum: 3546 3365f545bd49464f4e58bacc503f8b28 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flexbackup... Size/MD5 checksum: 80158 4955c89dbee354248f354a9bf0a480dd Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/flexbackup... Size/MD5 checksum: 75836 240f8792a65a0d80b8ef85d4343a4827 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFYhMIXm3vHE4uyloRAjjTAKDCnxcy1cKXf1yBEbVCIyc3JANyMQCgz8JD pz5K4X1ok9uom1/tmGPBFoU= =WJOD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org (Log in to post comments)
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