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Debian: DSA 658-1 Moderate: libdbi-perl Insecure Temporary File

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2005
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Elevate your libdbi-perl module to remediate a vulnerable temporary file problem influencing Debian variants.
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates a tmporary PID file in an insecure m...
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security advisory local issue Debian insecure file libdbi-perl

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.46-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your libdbi-perl 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: 587 778cd2081c6c996e962e5ccd6100b1e8
Size/MD5 checksum: 12117 b96cca05e51fcab8c6ca55c00644d3fd
Size/MD5 checksum: 208384 c781eee2559de5e4a72e28a8120cb1d9

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 345058 014d047dbb24fd94d1a1437244644cd8

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 3...

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