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Debian 4.0 DSA-1531-2 Critical: Policyd-Weight Local Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2008
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Ubuntu advisory USN-4492-1 addresses vulnerability in libxml2. It is advised to perform an upgrade.
The previous update for policyd-weight was unfortunately not complete. Updated packages have been released that fully address the vulnerability. For reference the original adviso...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
0.1.14-beta-6etch2.

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: 45179 fb4829a57c8b805fe981ee949a145042
Size/MD5 checksum: 900 9cf74d97e96eb0b118a5ad39fdd2226f
Size/MD5 checksum: 5382 1e4c07095291f50fce52aa8318f1...

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