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Debian: DSA 969-1 Critical: Scponly Design Flaw Enables Root Access

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2006
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To bolster security and fix a major vulnerability, updating the scponly package on your Debian system is essential. Follow these steps to ensure a smooth update process:
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your scponly 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: 600 ef0e45e07cfdd80fd53c0d3cd3daa31e
Size/MD5 checksum: 27012 96ee81daa1b248fe679106a9d9986b1b
Size/MD5 checksum: 85053 1706732945996865ed0cccd440b64fc1

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 31270 662...

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