ID DSA-1216 Type debian Reporter Debian Modified 2006-11-20T00:00:00
Description
Eric Romang discovered that the flexbackup backup tool creates temporary files in an insecure manner, which allows denial of service through a symlink attack.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-2sarge1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your flexbackup package.
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