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Debian: DSA-136-3 Critical: OpenSSL094 Remote Exploit Fix

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Calendar Grey September 17, 2002
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Urgent security update issued for openssl094 due to several potential remote exploits; all users of Debian are highly recommended to upgrade immediately.
There was an error in the original openssl094 packages, resulting in anincomplete fix.

Summary

There was an error in the original openssl094 packages, resulting in an
incomplete fix. This error has been corrected in 0.9.4-6.potato.2 and
0.9.4-6.woody.2. We recommend that you upgrade your openssl094 packages
immediately. i386 packages are available at this time, and packages will
be available shortly for other architectures. Note that the openssl
0.9.5a and 0.9.6 updates were not affected by this error.

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Obtaining updates:

By hand:
wget URL
will fetch the file for you.
dpkg -i FILENAME.deb
will install the fetched file.

With apt:
deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
added to /etc/apt/sources.list will provide security updates

Additional information can be found on the Debian security webpages
at Debian -- Security Information

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Debian 2.2 (potato)
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Oldstable was released f...

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Package: openssl094

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