Debian DSA-1531-1 Critical: Policyd-Weight Socket Issues
debian
March 27, 2008
Chris Howells discovered that policyd-weight, a policy daemon for the Postfix
mail transport agent, created its socket in an insecure way, which may be
exploited to overwrite or ...
Topics Covered
Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain a policyd-weight package.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your policyd-weight 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: 4967 e8f97333e6434de752bd3e83293a9f86
Size/MD5 checksum: 45179 fb4829a57c8b805fe981ee949a145042
Size/MD5 checksum: 900 3e9bbeb7fc9ee1d7deff549558daecf4
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 43534 db04606129cfd2f00175e...
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