Debian: DSA 823-1 Critical: Util-linux Privilege Escalation Issue

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12p-4sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12p-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your loop-aes-utils 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: 641 fce635015061f5d46813f8592a40d4c6
Size/MD5 checksum: 50075 cf65f5247eb2804b2a50f9194e68cb90
Size/MD5 checksum: 1442534 8abef2ae7e95177f5253ed4535e074c1

Architecture independent components:

Siz...