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Debian: DSA 555-1 Moderate: Freenet6 Wrong File Permissions

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2004
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Investigate the freenet6 file permission vulnerability and discover effective methods to protect your configuration files within Debian environments.
Simon Josefsson noticed that the tspc.conf configuration file in freenet6, a client to configure an IPv6 tunnel to freenet6.net, is set world readable.

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security advisory debian local issue configuration file permissions upgrade instructions freenet6

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security advisory debian local issue configuration file permissions upgrade instructions freenet6

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