Debian 2.1 Security Advisory: Critical Dump Symbolic Link Fix

The version of dump that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
suffers from a problem with restoring symbolic links.

This has been fixed in version 0.4b9-0slink1. We recommend you upgrade
your dump package immediately.

This version "Uses lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security
problem when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this to
deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files)".

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink

This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.


Source archives:
b9-
0slink1.dsc
MD5 checksum: 02974dac4f42f1b4959fabda825ebca3


b9-0slink1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 0323e77166ae759ed6b8de3687f97384

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gz
MD5 checksum: d865a4e26c528138d633618fb7f6a829

Alpha architecture:

alpha/dump_0.4b9-0slink1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: ee335c04fef89dab51cac3443cd9cea4

Intel ia32 architecture:

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