Debian 3.0/3.1 DSA 903-2 Critical: Unzip Permissions Race Condition
debian
January 27, 2006
The unzip update in DSA 903 contained a regression so that symbolic
links that are resolved later in a zip archive aren't supported
anymore
Topics Covered
Summary
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.50-1woody5.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.52-1sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.52-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your unzip 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: 571 75e2923b74af607785cbefbbea79d1ab
Size/MD5 checksum: 6484 73efae47dcd377abb934e36805c16190
Size/MD5 checksum: 1068379 6d27...
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