Debian: New fcheck packages fix insecure temporary file creation
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7.59-7sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7.59-8
We recommend that you upgrade your fcheck 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
Size/MD5 checksum: 584 54262b28cbd90e16c251c5bf2b980380
Size/MD5 checksum: 12765 f58245e36a86b48513042b450c7baf1a
Size/MD5 checksum: 32864 bdf767b294b4f706742fb96913df37f0
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 33622 e89d891255c37bcdf38097b9344312c7
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org