Debian: DSA 588-1 Critical: Gzip Local File Overwrite Threat

Trustix developers discovered insecure temporary file creation in
supplemental scripts in the gzip package which may allow local usersto overwrite files via a symlink attack.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.2-3woody3.

The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected by these problems.

We recommend that you upgrade your gzip 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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