Debian: DSA 656-1 Moderate: vdr Insecure File Access Remote Threat
debian
January 25, 2005
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...
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Summary
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
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 37f7d263a57337e6a...
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