Debian Woody: DSA 577-1 Moderate: Postgresql Symlink DoS

Trustix Security Engineers identified insecure temporary file creation
in a script included in the postgresql suite, an object-relational SQL
database. This could lead an attacker to trick a user to overwrite
arbitrary files he has write access to.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.2.1-2woody6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.4.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql packages.


Upgrade Instructions
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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.


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