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Debian: DSA 807-1 Critical: gcvs Insecure File Handling

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2005
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Enhance security in Debian by updating the gcvs package to eliminate vulnerabilities associated with temporary file handling.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0final-5sarge1.

The unstable distribution (sid) does not expose the cvsbug program.

We recommend that you upgrade your gcvs 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: 628 93e38babe549bc79940ac8991634e32c
Size/MD5 checksum: 7612 0bce83a419ba306aaf090862df3791d6
Size/MD5 checksum: 2797760 2ed03fff82873cd6977e6d2c8ed05edf

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 832560 00d36729832af58...

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