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Debian: DSA 784-1 Moderate: MySQL Insecure File Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 24, 2005
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Debian fixes an insecure temporary file in MySQL. Upgrade packages promptly to ensure system security.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1.12 for mysql-dfsg-4.1 and 5.0.11beta-3 of mysql-dfsg-5.0.

We recommend that you upgrade your mysql 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1021 13739557cb2a080e28e4d8b8d3c74b3c
Size/MD5 checksum: 162785 ebabe63abfbe2c9cf4a56fb9515d99dd
Size/MD5 checksum: 15771855 3c0582606a8903e758c2014c2481c7c3

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