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Debian: DSA-1450-1 Critical: Local Escalation Risk in Util-Linux

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2008
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Latest security notice released for Debian concerning util-linux addressing local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Update suggested.
It was discovered that util-linux, Miscellaneous system utilities, didn't drop privileged users and groups in the correct order in the mount and umount commands
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.12r-19etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.12p-4sarge2.

We recommend that you upgrade your util-linux 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 712 c16f823e59f4e6e844abb42a5d0d74c5
Size/MD5 checksum: 74396 9e13a2463ef33b2bd1596072742f8da8
Size/MD5 checksum: 2001658 d47e820f6880c21c8b4c0c7e8a7376cc

Architecture independent packages:

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