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Debian: DSA-1205-1 Critical: Thttpd Insecure Temporary File Handling

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2006
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Marco d'Itri discovered that thttpd, a small, fast and secure webserver, makes use of insecure temporary files when its logfiles are rotated, which might lead to a denial of servic...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.23beta1-3sarge2

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.23beta1-5

We recommend that you upgrade your thttpd 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: 614 0f9a3730f341fa0151596a3b9f20764d
Size/MD5 checksum: 14313 8545dd3d0f7a2083ecca36e53e72bd6b
Size/MD5 checksum: 128712 d3d91f6596f53d5e2b27cea8607d5bba

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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