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Debian: DSA 952-1 Critical: Libapache-Auth-Ldap Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2006
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Uncover an essential patch addressing potential arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Debian's libapache-auth-ldap caused by a format string flaw.
"Seregorn" discovered a format string vulnerability in the logging function of libapache-auth-ldap, an LDAP authentication module for the Apache webserver, that can lead to the e...
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security advisory arbitrary code execution remote issue libapache-auth-ldap debian update

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.0-8.1

The unstable distribution (sid) does no longer contain libapache-auth-ldap.

We recommend that you upgrade your libapache-auth-ldap 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: 652 6ef1d9323674ef6a5f076b3b65ccf60e
Size/MD5 checksum: 3927 e8197f2db55a7c9e570ee5f72bc3ff39
Size/MD5 checksum: 79058 de283639b40e3f359ad6e4a65cad1813

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 71528 ...

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