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Debian: DSA 996-1 Critical: libcrypt-cbc-perl Remote Issue

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2006
Scroller Debian
Debian resolves Crypt::CBC flaw, mitigating remote code execution vulnerabilities through fresh package updates.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.17-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libcrypt-cbc-perl package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 631 a30dd4cde44e3a484b28ad8fc1b67e38
Size/MD5 checksum: 4165 8bb65642884ea281f83026f2d98c6146
Size/MD5 checksum: 11036 27842b8ab627681b4a322610ea6184b5

Architecture independent components:

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