Debian: DSA-1500-2 Urgent: Libxslt Security Flaw Detected
debian
February 21, 2008
Mike Ashton discovered that splitvt, a utility to run two programs in a
split screen, did not drop group privileges prior to executing 'xprop'.
This could allow any local user to...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.6-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your splitvt 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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 602 38c5d340fe95abbd78edfa806618fce8
Size/MD5 checksum: 10746 ea95a61da623237d715e5b1fdce9e92a
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 41314 06622ad249f48ee2009f03ef1b4ba1ad
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
Size/MD5 checksum: 37754 dd591bff5b03378ab225dbf41648e037
hppa architecture (HP...
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