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Debian: 3.0 DSA 522-1 Urgent Security Advisory for Super Local Exploit

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Calendar Grey June 19, 2004
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Security flaw found in Fedora's monitoring tool allows potential remote code execution; immediate patching advised for protection.

This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by a local user to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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Summary


For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been
fixed in version 3.16.1-1.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will has been fixed
in version 3.23.0-1.

We recommend that you update your super 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: 575 cac1a056bb9e19b1338819fc4b88562c

Size/MD5 checksum: 10032 99656fad8f5c309f26a02e2ef55d7358

Size/MD5 checksum: 192062 cc868b2fc2b44c47d86da314a11acf0b

Alpha architecture:


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