Debian: DSA-1492-1 Moderate: WML Local Denial of Service
debian
February 10, 2008
Frank Lichtenheld and Nico Golde discovered that WML, an off-line HTML
generation toolkit, creates insecure temporary files in the eperl and
ipp backends and in the wmg.cgi scrip...
Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected.
We recommend that you upgrade your wml packages.
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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 656 3c12d2b00552d3db815957c01c73b2cf
Size/MD5 checksum: 3115230 a26feebf4e59e9a6940f54c69dde05b5
Size/MD5 checksum: 24577 3242a88ced8598120cf6aba2bf9f69c4
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 4539...
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