Debian: New vdr packages fix insecure file access
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 656-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 25th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : vdr Vulnerability : insecure file access Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0071 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Team has discovered that the vdr daemon which is used for video disk recorders for DVB cards can overwrite arbitrary files. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.0-1woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.6-6. We recommend that you upgrade your vdr 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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 580 b948b3b68a18e5f909dd9479a9841f8a Size/MD5 checksum: 431964 3e2a7e792b21258a56bfb54ff7aee702 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 68802 a881e0f34fdf75cbb9444221412f29e3 Size/MD5 checksum: 151954 a43a1eba9ed48ca81f4953cc2bb17236 Size/MD5 checksum: 152562 37f7d263a57337e6a5087944e15e9f46 Size/MD5 checksum: 153020 1b08452b0cb57abe74024521fbca4c32 Size/MD5 checksum: 154642 b0f7570129a1cd8c0594258750207cba 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: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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