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Debian DSA 1109-1 Critical: Rssh Remote Access Bypass Issue

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2006
Scroller Debian
Ubuntu security notice USN-1109-1 highlights potential elevation of privileges caused by a glitch in rssh code, along with detailed remedial steps.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.0-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rssh 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: 589 a8ccbaa1d14d0aa30b3eb0bb1aefd4e5
Size/MD5 checksum: 52207 00e3ad8c7944ed55e1316e414ab3d388
Size/MD5 checksum: 107216 74f40a4fd5d2b097af34a817e21a33cf

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 48782 0388514b947030f42219c9a615527dd9

AMD64 architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 44...

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