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Debian 4.0 DSA-1659-1 Critical: Libspf2 Remote Exec Issue

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2008
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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 brings attention to a possible local privilege escalation vulnerability in libabc. Users are urged to update.
Dan Kaminsky discovered that libspf2, an implementation of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) used by mail servers for mail filtering, handles malformed TXT records incorrectly, l...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.5-4+etch1.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.5.dfsg-5+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libspf2 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: 518107 5e81bbc41c1394e466eb06dd514f97d7
Size/MD5 checksum: 618 d7f758e290960445754d76595dd14a6b
Size/MD5 checksum: 15086 d93480ad8a520e40d2f7aa5...

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