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Debian DSA-761-1 Moderate: Heartbeat Insecure File Creation Advisory

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 761-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 19th, 2005 ht
Eric Romang discovered several insecure temporary file creations in heartbeat, the subsystem for High-Availability Linux.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.3-9sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.3-12.

We recommend that you upgrade your heartbeat 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: 658 2de794d2f0c7bbeafa08ecca95a47a12
Size/MD5 checksum: 47040 1376087e2548ffea01f1fa05f0644952
Size/MD5 checksum: 308033 1dcae9e87ad2e5c2113e91a884c1ca8e

Architecture independent components:

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