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Debian: DSA 845-1 Critical: mod-auth-shadow Remote Authentication Bypass

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2005
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Urgent alert from Debian regarding mod-auth-shadow uncovers coding flaw that affects user authentication mechanisms.
Updated package.

Summary


For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3-3.1woody.2.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libapache-mod-auth-shadow 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: 628 78a6276d158c96247f87c2a82ad337c9
Size/MD5 checksum: 5818 e57059b3d026f4490e83ef48e7c64551
Size/MD5 che...

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