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Debian Sarge DSA 839-1 Moderate: Apachetop Insecure File Creation

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2005
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.12.5-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.12.5-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your apachetop 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 613 cf61395747017a6c8a4319be4cbafe83
Size/MD5 checksum: 2956 76b0826270dcf4c51b191b9aaa3f58f8
Size/MD5 checksum: 126967 47c40c26319d57100008a2a56dcefe06

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 3...

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