Debian DSA 1150-1 Moderate: Shadow Package Privilege Escalation Fix

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.17-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your passwd 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 at the end of this advisory:

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

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Size/MD5 checksum: 1045704 b52dfb2e5e8d9a4a2aae0ca1b266c513

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 592990 fc32b98aaa86270b24ffcbcc628c6b53
Size/MD5 checksum: 6932...