Debian 3.0: DSA 647-1 Important: MySQL Symlink Vulnerability Alert
debian
January 19, 2005
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Project
discoverd a temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlaccess script of
MySQL that could allow an unprivileged...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.23-3 of mysql-dfsg and in version 4.1.8a-6 of
mysql-dfsg-4.1.
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 3.0 alias woody
Size/MD5 checksum: 875 943c6c647b130518c2a6c96bcb9c4031
Size/MD5 checksum: 68320 7c46ef730e9c81c554b6d511481c02b7
Size/MD5 checksum: 11861035 a2820d81997779a9fdf1f4b3c321564a
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 17484 9c6cf59a839d3fc25...
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