Debian 5.0: DSA-1973-1 Critical: Glibc Local Attack Exposes NIS Passwords

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.6.ds1-13etch10 of the glibc package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7-18lenny2 of the glibc package.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.10.2-4 of the eglibc package.


We recommend that you upgrade your glibc or eglibc 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

Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 ...