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Debian 2.2 DSA-045-1 Critical: NTP Remote Root Exploit Advisory

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2001
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A critical advisory from Fedora reveals a significant memory corruption vulnerability in the http daemon, prompting urgent patching to mitigate the risk.
Przemyslaw Frasunek reported that ntp daemons such as that released with Debian GNU/Linux are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that can lead to a remote ...
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Summary

Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin@FREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL> reported that ntp
daemons such as that released with Debian GNU/Linux are vulnerable to a
buffer overflow that can lead to a remote root exploit. This has been
corrected for Debian 2.2 (potato) in ntp version 4.0.99g-2potato1.

We recommend you upgrade your ntp package immediately.

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You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
architectures.

Source archives:

MD5 checksum: f278c5e4a9026241939509a88cab3ea3

MD5 checksum: 3a9204ca9f9875e4b1a479a48152bf6e

MD5 checksum: 6f3132fb4f6a3ee411554d09270f562a

Architecture-independent files:

MD5 checksum: 01c31ea28c198cc81535aa448e89c7d1

MD5 checksum: 69290af3b3f49c3e7b9c3f0838cbd553

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