Debian: DSA 540-1 Critical Security Issue with MySQL File Protection

Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> discovered an insecure
temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlhotcopy script when using the
scp method which is part of the mysql-server packge

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.23.49-8.7 of mysql.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.20-11 of mysql-dfsg.

We recommend that you upgrade your mysql-server 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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