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Debian 3.1 Proftpd DSA 1245-1 Critical Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey January 7, 2007
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Important update for ProFTPD addressing a critical denial of service issue. Upgrade for stable distribution is highly advised.
Updated package.

Summary


For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.2.10+1.3.0rc5-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.10+1.3.0rc5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your proftpd 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 897 4bb3486da273b7f246396e54a672298d
Size/MD5 checksum: 128904 accf444b76dd76b0bf076ada64195e81
Size/MD5 checksum: 920495 7d2bc5b4b1eef459a78e55c027a4f3c4

Architecture independent components:

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