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Debian: DSA 664-1 Urgent: Cpio Permissions Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2005
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Ubuntu notice USN 1234-5 highlights incorrect file permissions in tar, recommends users to upgrade for enhanced security.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your cpio 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 549 45ee6d04cffc59c6e0d125ab269d8672
Size/MD5 checksum: 22965 a5db2ad1ec00b2825bbdf4f0acaf8a84
Size/MD5 checksum: 181728 3e976db71229d52a8a135540698052df

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 73064 029c7d1de8bff5d6f63c7702455c0e17

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 63746 05f2cee18a28822...

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