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Debian 1.4.0 Urgent: Update on cfingerd Root Vulnerability Fix

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Calendar Grey December 13, 1999
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Older cfingerd releases before 1.4.0 and 1.3.2-18.1 contain a severe root vulnerability; update immediately!
We have received a report that the all versions of cfingerd prior to 1.4.0 and 1.3.2-18.1 are vulnerable to a root exploit - as posted on bugtraq.
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Summary

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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Source archives:

MD5 checksum: 01f1f08cb22716f3188370bb827557e4
MD5 checksum: 8fd375da499ec3e0198981a97c11d5fe

Sun Sparc architecture:

MD5 checksum: 7edc36abd55c18c0c8f9e90837ab15cb

Intel architecture:

MD5 checksum: 515bdcc9e579ce8b886341658bacaefd

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

MD5 checksum: ec6f1388f5a7b407637aabc4de29a0c5

Alpha architecture:

MD5 checksum: 97123d5b5eed85c74788d0c35c20b03b


Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias potato
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Source archives:

.4.0-1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: ad4cf97b7c3f679e3b4133320cac769c
-1.dsc
MD5 checksum: c5b5448968db444ee70075087e35a294

Sun Sparc architecture:

MD5 checksum: 8aa7fd61b8db6f76cb8120df3082a54e

Intel ia32 architecture:

MD5 checksum: a33ea81eb429c7b734a2769685...

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security advisory security update critical debian root exploit cfingerd

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