Debian 4.0 Etch DSA 1395-1 Critical: Truncation Risk in Xen-Utils
debian
October 25, 2007
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that xen-utils,
a collection of XEN administrative tools, used temporary files insecurely
within the xenmon tool allo...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version
3.0.3-0-4.
For the old stable distribution (sarge) this package was not present.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your xen-3.0 (3.0.3-0-4) 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 4.0 alias etch
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Size/MD5 checksum: 29265 c74760e053d31133c5fdf346690a53c0
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