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Re: Proposed patch to aptitude in stable to fix a low-impact security bug



Hi,

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 22:26 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 07:44 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: 
> > The version of aptitude in stable contains a security bug that could
> > theoretically allow a symlink attack in /tmp.
[...]
> Thanks.  That does seem a rather narrow attack vector. :-)
> Nevertheless, assuming the patch has been tested in a squeeze
> environment and there aren't any other changes involved, please feel
> free to upload 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 to stable adding that patch.
> 
> If the same patch also applies to oldstable and has been tested there,
> then uploading an updated package for lenny would also be okay.

Any news on either of the uploads?

Regards,

Adam


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