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Debian: 3.x DSA 870-1 Critical: Sudo Arbitrary Command Execution

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2005
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To mitigate arbitrary command execution vulnerabilities, keep your Debian sudo package updated by executing simple terminal commands for best security practices
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.8p7-1.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.8p9-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your sudo 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: 587 c22d78e545cc41285b70e928baf5ef2a
Size/MD5 checksum: 12353 49b036195d8797105cc48b77343409df
Size/MD5 checksum: 333074 4da4bf6cf31634cc7a17ec3b69fdc333

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 151570 03...

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