Michael Meskes uploaded new packages for virtualbox-ose which fixed the following security problem: Debian Bug #504149 Symlink vulnerability due to bad /tmp handling allowing an attacker to overwrite any files owned by the starting user of virtualbox. For the etch-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in version 1.6.6-dfsg-3~bpo40+1. For the lenny and sid distributions the problem has been fixed in version 1.6.6-dfsg-3. Upgrade instructions -------------------- If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the packages manually via "apt-get -t etch-backports install <packagelist>" with the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update. [1] <http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions> We recommend to pin the backports repository to 200 so that new versions of installed backports will be installed automatically: Package: * Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 200
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