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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org

http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman

October 18, 1999

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We have received reports that the version of mirror as distributed in

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 could be remotely exploited. When mirroring a

remote site the remote site could use filename-constructions like " .."

that would case mirror to work one level above the target directory for

the mirrored files.



This has been fixed in mirror version 2.9-2.1 .



We recommend you upgrade your mirror package immediately.



wget url

        will fetch the file for you

dpkg -i file.deb

        will install the referenced file.



Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink

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  This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola

  680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.



  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mirror_2.9-2.1.diff.gz




      MD5 checksum: 2340c6a18b8b69c5122ef78e50663824

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mirror_2.9-2.1.dsc

      MD5 checksum: 2890c6ed6c60e97299c7fcd3a56b5b36

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mirror_2.9.orig.tar.gz




      MD5 checksum: 49ebf2fc732322aff2a8297f89bb9df3



  Architecture indendent archives:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-all/mirror_2.9-2.1_all.

deb

      MD5 checksum: d10e76994611915ba79aeee838fada7c



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