Debian 3.1: DSA 1040-1 Critical: gdm Local Privilege Escalation
debian
April 24, 2006
A vulnerability has been identified in gdm, a display manager for X,
that could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by
exploiting a race condition in the handlin...
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.0.8-1sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed in
version 2.14.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gdm 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: 732 5e615263c621f3166eab26233249934b
Size/MD5 checksum: 258548 323d831f75f4a784b754ee4d6902120f
Size/MD5 checksum: 5619049 1417d176925a4a24c465c043df7b6a39
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 3243636 3...
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