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Debian: DSA-1623-1 Critical: Dnsmasq Cache Poisoning Mitigation Update

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2008
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1628-1 tackles critical vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL package, urging users to update for enhanced safety.
This update changes Debian's dnsmasq packages to implement the recommended countermeasure: UDP query source port randomization

Summary


This update also switches the random number generator to Dan
Bernstein's SURF.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.35-1+etch4. Packages for alpha will be provided later.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.43-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dnsmasq 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 4.0 alias etch

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 596 3834461c89e55467b4b65ed4ac209e81
Size/MD5 checksum: 252901 ad1fafeaf3442685cfe16613e0f8b777
...

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