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Debian: DSA-1561-1 Urgent: ldm Remote Access Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2008
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Christian Herzog discovered that within the Linux Terminal Server Project, it was possible to connect to X on any LTSP client from any host on the network, making client windows ...
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Summary


chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get update
chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get dist-upgrade


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.99debian11+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:0.1~bzr20080308-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ldm 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 183019 c97fa50f7a30f213742be6466a7817fc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1243 c8d0f83f26c580a9fcf5079d303c1958

Architecture independent packages:

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