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Debian Security Advisory DSA 559-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Martin Schulze
October 6th, 2004                        Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : net-acct
Vulnerability  : insecure temporary file
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CAN-2004-0851
Debian Bug     : 270359

Stefan Nordhausen has identified a local security hole in net-acct, a
user-mode IP accounting daemon.  Old and redundant code from some time
way back in the past created a temporary file in an insecure fashion.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.71-5woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.71-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your net-acct package.


Upgrade Instructions
--------------------

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
--------------------------------

  Source archives:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      562 72c93549d6dd86d7365d206706ff9a62
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:     9950 ab1dd923a4e18d520793c34738d2a8f4
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    44741 87daae6d4b06144534205b3fc201c058

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    52922 339d98c59e34655dc8762e076251fbd3

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    50096 f7a21521634202264dacfae238716bf5

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    49346 c90d2f7b3f777905c5f8f90f8edd6b57

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    58530 df761be43caec7fa543d37279c265afd

  HP Precision architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    51702 145f469e3c2bfae125ff4e0a23729a0a

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    46882 e1dabe763136c5cfd0b04de8fd691fb7

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    49332 7393517e4ac4f83e0fbc6efda5118a2f

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    49380 60ae8a7d4c1265fb07adaaf6d49cbe2f

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    49824 3442f397b0db858aa4bfb9e4d418a5f4

  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    47688 69c06b385a4ff25df34dd60052c88fc4

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    51684 083a1078e261fd3621f37f17c8305885


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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