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[DSA761] DSA-761-2 heartbeat

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-761-2 heartbeat

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The security update DSA 761-1 for pdns contained a bug which caused a
regression. This problem is corrected with this advisory. For
completeness below please find the original advisory text:
Eric Romang discovered several insecure temporary file creations in
heartbeat, the subsystem for High-Availability Linux.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.4.9.0l-7.3.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.3-9sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.3-12.
We recommend that you upgrade your heartbeat package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-761
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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