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[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for lintian



Raphael Geissert uploaded new packages for lintian which fixed the
following security problems:

CVE-2009-4013: missing control files sanitation

  Control field names and values were not sanitised before using them
  in certain operations that could lead to directory traversals.

  Patch systems' control files were not sanitised before using them
  in certain operations that could lead to directory traversals.

CVE-2009-4014: format string vulnerabilities

  Multiple check scripts and the Lintian::Schedule module were using
  user-provided input as part of the sprintf/printf format string.

CVE-2009-4015: arbitrary command execution

  File names were not properly escaped when passing them as arguments to
  certain commands, allowing the execution of other commands as pipes or
  as a set of shell commands.


For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 2.3.2~bpo50+1.

Upgrade instructions
--------------------

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the package
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install lintian".
[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=lenny-backports
  Pin-Priority: 200

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