Package : gcc-3.4 Vulnerability : missing sanity check Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-3619 BugTraq ID : 15669 Debian Bug : 368397
Jürgen Weigert discovered that upon unpacking JAR archives fastjar from the GNU Compiler Collection does not check the path for included files and allows to create or overwrite files in upper directories.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.3-13sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.1-11.
We recommend that you upgrade your fastjar package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------