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Debian: DSA 1216-1 Moderate: flexbackup Local DoS Through Symlink

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2006
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To address the local denial of service vulnerability related to insecure temp files, update the flexbackup package on your Debian system by using terminal commands.
Updated package.

Summary


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

Size/MD5 checksum: 587 06539319d0534272e216306562677723
Size/MD5 checksum: 3546 3365f545bd49464f4e58bacc503f8b28
Size/MD5 checksum: 80158 4955c89dbee354248f354a9bf0a480dd

Architecture independent components:

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