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Debian DSA 815-1 Critical Update: Kdebase Local Access Threat

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2005
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Update required for kdebase components following local access vulnerability; possible root compromise managed in notification DSA 815-1.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.3.2-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4.2-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your kdebase-bin 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: 1470 1bba89e478ef850d4c634ffae067075c
Size/MD5 checksum: 881169 8a0ca94aa8607a134af2a24b70cee92e
Size/MD5 checksum: 23750520 32d59e3bcb972a9a29414935c7f72481

Architecture independent components:

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