Debian DSA 539-1 Security Alert: Kdelibs Local File Vulnerability

The SUSE security team was alerted that in some cases the integrity of
symlinks used by KDE are not ensured and that these symlinks can be
pointing to stale locations. This can be abused by a local attacker
to create or truncate arbitrary files or to prevent KDE applications
from functioning correctly.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.2-13.woody.12.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.3.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your kde 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 3.0 alias woody

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