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Debian: DSA-2281-2 Moderate: Opie Command Flaw & Privilege Elevation

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2011
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Sebastian Krahmer discovered that opie, a system that makes it simple to use One-Time passwords in applications, is prone to a privilege escalation (CVE-2011-2490) and an off-by-on...
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Summary


For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.32-10.2+lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.32.dfsg.1-0.2+squeeze1

The testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid) do
not contain opie.


We recommend that you upgrade your opie packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: opie
CVE IDs: CVE-2011-2489 CVE-2011-2490 CVE-2010-1938

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