Debian: DSA-1709-1: New shadow packages fix privilege escalation
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.18.1-7+etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1.1-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your shadow package.
Upgrade instructions
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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 below:
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 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 2354234 3f54eaa3a35e7c559f4def92e9957581
Size/MD5 checksum: 297817 b78d9d738765da65a6b55dea102569c3
Size/MD5 checksum: 1406 ec01ac54e482ea552fdae5753d6c1745
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 810680 329e1cd5ad019d3984411b1a8a5c77ad
Size/MD5 checksum: 943992 76690a44c565b4594892bab69eaf7e30
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
Size/MD5 checksum: 867696 4ce4e2f7884cd883729123163930b9dc
Size/MD5 checksum: 806412 3a6171d83a4b79846fe4831b02007a4b
arm architecture (ARM)
Size/MD5 checksum: 778766 df6126b8cd29de54831976a24d28589e
Size/MD5 checksum: 791770 a9e7b122a8f9a7944bfc91b7cec77554
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 847846 8562b322610062eb31689e467d80ff7c
Size/MD5 checksum: 804082 af4a3f06a93be5cea7dd7dfeed8eed1b
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
Size/MD5 checksum: 792460 82c630b2f4e18217170a73a2dab27cba
Size/MD5 checksum: 796578 439cd50477db064cdf11d9b48c0e9af0
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
Size/MD5 checksum: 1048736 79434b796109c1565f0f0be3cb8d06f0
Size/MD5 checksum: 826456 13df2a0a071f407c84b25ae3ed6077bc
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 804530 0523d4220e9cb7e8b2342a0a33c1e989
Size/MD5 checksum: 899612 597b58ea81e074bae374b412f28e1252
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 908860 ade3427a1b8b693a098544ac27ae17aa
Size/MD5 checksum: 805100 fd9d9e49cd9b7864b06865c097f0ba08
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 805442 c8f8683c70aabfbea99f27115afda81e
Size/MD5 checksum: 856164 16db8928aa4424f57372e32b23b7de58
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
Size/MD5 checksum: 820700 2cd319907d34afe08918cd5f93461f60
Size/MD5 checksum: 804200 4851f0e0fa27d5786353b6235316215a
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 800196 19f9b82843f53040d2083e348d0300d4
Size/MD5 checksum: 789552 ae637bec3b696937705a094db261e973
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show