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Debian DSA-1430-1 Critical: Libnss-Ldap Denial Of Service Issue

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1430-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp December 11, 2007 htt
It was reported that a race condition exists in libnss-ldap, an NSS module for using LDAP as a naming service, which could cause denial of service attacks when applications use p...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
251-7.5etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 238-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 256-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libnss-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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 219945 97fd929b381329b972b3c3ddca5a4bbf
Size/MD5 checksum: 26236 c7191ee3845dc23ccf2712e78daed8f1
Size/MD5 checksum: 681 3176fefa1d...

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