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Debian Sarge: DSA 1205-2 Moderate: Thttpd Symlink Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2006
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To fix insecure temporary file creation in thttpd on Debian, update your package list, upgrade thttpd, secure temp directories, and restart the service
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


The original advisory for this issue didn't contain fixed packages for all
supported architectures which are corrected in this update.

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 8545dd3d0f7a2083ecca36e5...

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