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Debian: DSA 750-1 Moderate: Nmap Vulnerability Mitigation

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2005
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A critical vulnerability allowing remote code execution in the ettercap software for Debian has been resolved. Users are advised to update to enhance security.
A vulnerability was discovered in the ettercap package which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system running ettercap.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.7.1-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.7.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ettercap 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 3.1 (sarge)
- ------------------ sarge was released for alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1121758 f769039e0e967e9e09d0365fe358d683
Size/MD5 checksum: 4027 409603f119d07401bf7671b317e8ccef
...

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