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Debian: DSA 666-1 Critical: Python2.2 Remote Design Flaw

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2005
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN 1234-5 pertains to a vulnerability in OpenSSL impacting TLS sessions, enhancing protection.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.1-4.7
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Summary


For the testing (sarge) and unstable (sid) distributions the following
matrix explains which version will contain the correction in which
version:

testing unstable
Python 2.2 2.2.3-14 2.2.3-14
Python 2.3 2.3.4-20 2.3.4+2.3.5c1-2
Python 2.4 2.4-5 2.4-5

We recommend that you upgrade your Python 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: 1150 85a315a9618c391ce64b37d90a4b6160
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