Debian: DSA 574-1 Critical: Cabextract File Overwrite Risk

The upstream developers discovered a problem in cabextract, a tool to
extract cabinet files. The program was able to overwrite files in
upper directories. This could lead an attacker to overwrite arbitrary
files.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.2-2b.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cabextract package.


Upgrade Instructions
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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 3.0 alias woody
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