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Debian DSA-1945-1 Critical: Gforge Symlink Attack Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2009
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The Debian security team has issued a Gforge advisory which tackles a symlink exploit that could result in a denial of service issue.
Sylvain Beucler discovered that gforge, a collaborative development tool, is prone to a symlink attack, which allows local users to perform a denial of service attack by overwritin...

Summary


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.7~rc2-7lenny3.

The oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.5.14-22etch13.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.8.2-1.


We recommend that you upgrade your gforge packages.


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 4.0 alias etch

Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 a...

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Package: gforge
CVE ID: CVE-2009-3304

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