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Debian 3.1 DSA-1185-2 Critical: Openssl Remote Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey October 2, 2006
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Address security weaknesses in OpenSSL associated with Debian DSA-1185-2. Information regarding the vulnerabilities and corresponding patches have been disclosed.
The fix used to correct CVE-2006-2940 introduced code that could lead to the use of uninitialized memory

Summary


For the unstable and testing distributions (sid and etch,
respectively), these problems will be fixed in version 0.9.7k-3 of the
openssl097 compatibility libraries, and version 0.9.8c-3 of the
openssl package.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl package. Note that
services linking against the openssl shared libraries will need to be
restarted. Common examples of such services include most Mail
Transport Agents, SSH servers, and web servers.


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: 639 179f34093d...

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