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Debian 4.0 etch DSA-1643-1 Critical: Feta Insecure File Handling

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2008
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Debian DSA-1643-2 resolves a security issue in feta related to improper management of temporary files that could lead to a denial of service.
Dmitry E

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.16+nmu1.

We recommend that you upgrade your feta 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 4.0 alias etch

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 545 87c8cdfc722b149eefc2c4cc1e05c868
Size/MD5 checksum: 52134 27b5bc566e7f42a5b79dd8ef67013b8d

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 47708 8133fddc8dc30973c5fcb3368292b1fb

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

For dpkg-ftp: dist...

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