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Debian 3.1 DSA 761-2 Critical: Heartbeat Insecure Files Fix

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2005
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A notification regarding significant revisions to the heartbeat package within Debian, aimed at rectifying vulnerabilities linked to insecure temporary file handling.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.3-9sarge3.

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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 881 3544d0263e793b04ec3b893faa7d4358
Size/MD5 checksum: 267445 c38c21332c83fbbc6f04b7a95923c52b
Size/MD5 checksum: 1772513 9fd126e5dff51cc8c1eee223c252a4af

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 45276 af7385c286cf97611abc63694536f31b

Alpha architecture:

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