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Debian 3.0 DSA 675-1 Critical: Hztty Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey February 10, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 676-1 outlines a patch for a vulnerability found in lztty, targeting an issue related to local privilege escalation.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0-6.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hztty 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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 560 921462207b6301fc73d8d2613fbaa856
Size/MD5 checksum: 4158 910c17cb2807c3cd7d2df62d28f016a5
Size/MD5 checksum: 229189 7ec5907ad55825780274b8a77b217e21

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 153974 56ea5146bfcbed6392913a2dd697ac4d

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 149808...

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