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Debian: DSA-1676-1 Moderate: Flamethrower Local DoS Risk Fixed

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2008
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Uncover the measures Debian has implemented to secure flamethrower against local denial-of-service attacks via enhanced temporary file handling. Learn further!
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.1.8-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your flamethrower 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

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 3138 f6263743cb41f4f75ab9f4dbc76a71a5
Size/MD5 checksum: 23485 04e1b6c5b4e72879e8aa69fcccb0491f
Size/MD5 checksum: 598 4a880e477706f57bcfb806eb46a81922

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 16880 fbc0c1b237503a9d88521b444e4319e0


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