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Debian 3.0 DSA-809-2 Moderate: Squid Assertion Error Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2005
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A remote access vulnerability has been identified in the nginx package for Ubuntu - update your installation immediately to shield your environment from external threats.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.9-10sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.10-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid 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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 614 72838788cad08e14db248125795fef03
Size/MD5 checksum: 257792 036373fa29b3f0ef0f13f1ce2b7e9506
Size/MD5 checksum: 1081920 59ce2c58da189626d77e27b9702ca228

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 817042...

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