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Debian: DSA 865-1 Critical: Hylafax Insecure Temp Files Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2005
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Patch addressing the risks associated with insecure temporary file handling in hylafax installations for Debian systems, prioritizing user security and data preservation.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.2.1-5sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.2.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hylafax packages.


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: 739 a26715f7b967614e4aa3afb4657fb20e
Size/MD5 checksum: 116099 ad9d74b7d995655df44c6a257cfb8e1f
Size/MD5 checksum: 1287689 1ed081750be70a800708699b7568e17e

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 ...

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