Debian: DSA-1402-1 Moderate: Gforge Local File Security Risk
debian
November 7, 2007
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that gforge,
a collaborative development tool, used temporary files insecurely which
could allow local users to trunc...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1-31sarge4.
We recommend that you upgrade your gforge 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: 868 4005b2a103656a62f38e1786a227b1d0
Size/MD5 checksum: 1409879 c723b3a9efc016fd5449c4765d5de29c
Size/MD5 checksum: 297962 8fd56957c8fbab462ac619339c2f00d3
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 55884 f4b7e0aee840e3574a0febf1615070be
Size/MD5 checksum: 70804 967a22a70e3ee9749...
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