We have received a report that using ncurses in setuid programs will
give the user a way to open arbitrary files.
We recommend you upgrade your ncurses3.4-dev package immediately.
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm
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This version of Debian were released only for the Intel and the
Motorola 68xxx architecture.
Intel architecture:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable-updates/ncurses3.4-dev_1.9.9g-8.9.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 9dcb2a4d455197b1102ccefd99bf60fa
Motorola 68xxx architecture:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable-updates/ncurses3.4-dev_1.9.9g-8.9.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 917a954e24960a63e0ec8eaf56274bb7
These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/binary-$arch/ soon.
For other architectures please refer to the appropriate directory
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .
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Debian GNU/Linux . Security Managers . security@debian.org
debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org> . Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
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