Debian 4.0 DSA-1577-1 Critical: GForge Insecure Temporary Files
debian
May 14, 2008
Stephen Gran and Mark Hymers discovered that some scripts run by GForge,
a collaborative development tool, open files in write mode in a potentially
insecure manner
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your gforge 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
Size/MD5 checksum: 950 b920bc8243418bf618256638369bc4cd
Size/MD5 checksum: 2161141 e85f82eff84ee073f80a2a52dd32c8a5
Size/MD5 checksum: 198227 d2fa0c2fcd092cca4b06fa58c852bacc
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 88632 653a57ad16301d4c56dd6258c7899bf3
Size/MD5 checksum: 704846 40d23715b91b68be2818f3cd40fcd69f
Size...
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