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Debian: DSA-383-2 Critical: OpenSSH Buffer Handling Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2003
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The latest Ubuntu advisory points to critical flaws within the OpenSSL framework, stressing the urgency for prompt upgrades to enhance protection and avert possible breaches.
This advisory is an addition to the earlier DSA-383-1 advisory: SolarDesigner found four more bugs in OpenSSH that may be exploitable.

Summary

Package : ssh-krb5
Vulnerability : buffer handling
Problem type : possible remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE references : CAN-2003-0693 CAN-2003-0695 CAN-2003-0682

This advisory is an addition to the earlier DSA-383-1 advisory: Solar
Designer found four more bugs in OpenSSH that may be exploitable.

For the Debian stable distribution these bugs have been fixed in version
1:3.4p1-0woody4 .


Upgrade Instructions
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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

Source archives:


Size/MD5 checksum: 1357 d7f2f4b66a60aec2636aaa131a04ea86

Size/MD5 checksum: 837668 459c1d...

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