Debian 5.0 DSA-1831-1 High Severity Djbdns Remote Attack

debian

July 13, 2009

Matthew Dempsky discovered that Daniel J

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity remote exploit Debian programming error djbdns

Summary

The old stable distribution (etch) does not contain djbdns.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.05-4+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.05-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your djbdns 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 5.0 alias lenny

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 85648 3147c5cd56832aa3b41955c7a51cbeb2
Size/MD5 checksum: 1237 b7dc377faa3cc915a4fc4c831188c536
Size/MD5 checksum: 52796 aa741f98a1c7d7b64f49b3ec3d69646d

Architecture independent packages:

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