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Debian: DSA-382-2 Critical: OpenSSH Buffer Handling Remote Issue

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Calendar Grey September 17, 2003
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The notice issued by Ubuntu draws attention to new security flaws identified in OpenSSH's memory handling and advises users to promptly refresh their systems.
This advisory is an addition to the earlier DSA-382-1 advisory: two morebuffer handling problems have been found in addition to the onedescribed in DSA-382-1

Summary

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

This advisory is an addition to the earlier DSA-382-1 advisory: two more
buffer handling problems have been found in addition to the one
described in DSA-382-1. It is not known if these bugs are exploitable,
but as a precaution an upgrade is advised.

For the Debian stable distribution these bugs have been fixed in version
1:3.4p1-1.woody.2 .

Please note that if a machine is setup to install packages from
proposed-updates it will not automatically install this update.


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 th...

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