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Debian 3.0: DSA-725-1 Critical: PPXP Local Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2005
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Upgrade to the latest ppxp version resolves significant local vulnerability. Ensure your system remains protected with cutting-edge Debian security protocols.
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.2001080415-11.

We recommend that you upgrade your ppxp 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: 706 964d29fc5c29b87e0aa86d4166dcdfa5
Size/MD5 checksum: 8253 3595338ba6d14102c827fecd776d4c11
Size/MD5 checksum: 426444 35dc6007ee4eafa9685f5e1e695a1464

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 264352 d4bd9bced5e4dc7fa17196a310b5e557
Size/MD5 checksum: 57274 a4313923dbd89b...

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