Debian: DSA-1450-1 Urgent: Sudo Vulnerability Local Privilege Escalation
debian
January 5, 2008
It was discovered that loop-aes-utils, tools for mounting and manipulating
filesystems, didn't drop privileged users and groups in the correct order
in the mount and umount comma...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12p-4sarge2.
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 df895a3729db10a19896a9251d4af5b2
Size/MD5 checksum: 2001658 d47e820f6880c21c8b4c0c7e8a7376cc
Size/MD5 checksum: 69885 c9e24c3959fbac7e69f4d3ac1c6e672b
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 170466 00b1327015aec6a2b3956ffa8bfdee89
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
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