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Debian DSA 667-1 Critical: PostgreSQL Privilege Escalation Threat

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2005
Scroller Debian
Random dynamic linking problem resolved in PostgreSQL; update advised for better security and reliability.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.4.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql packages.


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: 966 f0e632eca84a8dc7ccf663ce571d935b
Size/MD5 checksum: 120062 c30b6def44d0577bf680fde58e049429
Size/MD5 checksum: 9237680 d075e9c49135899645dff57bc58d6233

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 2069418 36c13fc68083fc01b0f64c149d572bba

Alpha architecture:

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