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Debian 3.1 DSA-825-1: Critical Privilege Escalation in Loop-AES-Utils

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2005
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The recent fix for the loop-aes-utils package in Debian resolves a local privilege escalation vulnerability. It is advisable to upgrade to the latest version for enhanced security.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12p-4sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12p-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your loop-aes-utils 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: 684 e708365ea3b674ef3983edda999d8070
Size/MD5 checksum: 69614 f085322d67f1300c914910c1ca1fd95f
Size/MD5 checksum: 2001658 d47e820f6880c21c8b4c0c7e8a7376cc

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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