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Debian: DSA-927-1 Moderate: tkdiff Insecure Temp File Issue

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Calendar Grey December 27, 2005
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Concerning DSA-927-2, the latest Debian patch resolves the vulnerability in tkdiff's temporary files, so ensure you update promptly for enhanced security.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.2-1sarge0.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.2-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tkdiff 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: 568 f331eee995b5ec3b5346b519c7147ee4
Size/MD5 checksum: 3685 f00859ddd284e8016728b5a1d00b6fdd
Size/MD5 checksum: 63171 197e9bee9812a5698889c589efd9b1ee

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 ch...

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