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Debian: DSA-1327 Critical: Gsambad Local File Truncation Exploit

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2007
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3721-1 highlights python2's insufficient input validation, creating potential security vulnerabilities. Patching is advised.
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that gsambad, a GTK+ configuration tool for samba, uses temporary files in an unsafe manner which may be exploited to...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.1.4-2etch1.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your gsambad 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: 24766 8ac63c3ecf53c7243f6f8675d3e2bb48
Size/MD5 checksum: 609 35dc69c7f48b6b327b782d310037eac6
Size/MD5 checksum: 385776 ced255218e024b43de6d42c9fc1653d2

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 109878 5a...

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