COMMAND

    fte

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    Debian Linux

PROBLEM

   Following is based on Debian  list advisory.  They have  found that
   the  fte  package  as  supplied  in  their slink (frozen and potato
   (unstable)  archives  does  not  drop  its  root  priviliges  after
   initializing the virtual console device.  This allows all users  to
   read and write files with root priviliges, and execute all programs
   as root.

SOLUTION

    A new package  (version 0.46b-4.1) has  been uploaded to  fix this
    problem.  For not yet  released architectures please refer to  the
    appropriate directory:

        ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/