Debian: New rssh packages fix privilege escalation
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.0-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your rssh 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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 589 a8ccbaa1d14d0aa30b3eb0bb1aefd4e5
Size/MD5 checksum: 52207 00e3ad8c7944ed55e1316e414ab3d388
Size/MD5 checksum: 107216 74f40a4fd5d2b097af34a817e21a33cf
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 48782 0388514b947030f42219c9a615527dd9
AMD64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 44472 021a58e5c2591e2a15e4f1804816aa7b
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 41974 98eb40b5011e7868b02edfc07591f005
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 42596 7236c31d25f8b4cbbb8894112aa585aa
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 55530 9c61a904a78c4c6d93763cdb73f9c009
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 44098 334ae1019286051be323bf6994d51c99
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 41522 0efafd5a441d6d392d1a2490bfb2dcc4
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 49520 7126170731d1b5ad12d7afb6d68c16b7
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 49546 7d8859c87eeb09f3b2502cfbed3c3f66
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 42936 f68184985e1ec6c27518ac74404afbec
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 42596 29243bae45e1dca2c07ca609617c0bfa
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 42532 59db16aa282bc182f79418fdd99341c0
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org