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Category: Debian Local Security Checks Risk factor: High Added: 8 Oct 2008
Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the "to-upgrade" plugin of Feta,
a simpler interface to APT, dpkg, and other Debian package tools creates temporary files insecurely, which may lead to local denial of service through symlink attacks. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.15+etch1.


Solution: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1643
Risk factor: High

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