Debian: New splitvt packages fix privilege escalation
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.6-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your splitvt 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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 602 38c5d340fe95abbd78edfa806618fce8
Size/MD5 checksum: 10746 ea95a61da623237d715e5b1fdce9e92a
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 41314 06622ad249f48ee2009f03ef1b4ba1ad
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
Size/MD5 checksum: 37754 dd591bff5b03378ab225dbf41648e037
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 38398 f9c5dc35197dcd1b8a2843a29c200bbb
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
Size/MD5 checksum: 34754 70d76970fb5017197c78861c4d070cab
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
Size/MD5 checksum: 50166 d2328ca3f1d1114cc9a2497d59e0ff9a
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 39434 3205ddfd371fd0edd5175333a5c94c1b
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 37800 7c8d9c7f20e4a4fc92531f0a5cd7bb26
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
Size/MD5 checksum: 37854 9c39d0109f6600022862c3ee6d1fb0c8
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