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Debian 2.1: Critical Update - Man-db Symlink Attack Risk

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Calendar Grey December 13, 1999
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Enhance your man-db component in Debian 2.1 to address a significant symlink vulnerability that has been documented lately.
We have received reports that the man-db package as supplied in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a vulnerability in the zsoelim program: it was vulnerable to a symlink attack
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Summary

We recommend you upgrade your man-db package immediately.

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:

db_2.3.10-69FIX.1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: c4285a252e4ed1ffea13ac95930ae108

db_2.3.10-69FIX.1.dsc
MD5 checksum: 2c8f000da7c4cb05a2264d7d3c25d861

n-db_2.3.10.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: d2e9db8c0e1fa96e7463b968ad53a04b

Alpha architecture:

alpha/man-db_2.3.10-69FIX.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 78d88d31d5248d085b6da774cbf248c3

Intel ia32 architecture:

i386/man-db_2.3.10-69FIX.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 3141d2549a8873895dbc0fd0eead7324

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

m68k/man-db_2.3.10-69FIX.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 40d30c985d0c9ab3f49649270a23f7f3

Sun Sparc architecture:

sparc/man-db_2.3.10-69FIX.1_sparc.deb
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