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Debian 735-1 Critical: Sudo Pathname Validation Local Escalation

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2005
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Resolution for pathname validation inconsistency in sudo alleviates privilege elevation concern in Debian systems.
Updated package.

Summary


We recommend that you upgrade your sudo 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 3.0 (woody)
- ------------------ woody was released for alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 333074 4da4bf6cf31634cc7a17ec3b69fdc333
Size/MD5 checksum: 663 9d642dfebcaa64925b0dc8222fdef8fb
Size/MD5 checksum: 32343 4e6a3617874f1a947073adbe8f5a8bd7

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 150074 adfd1c1e51dbe1dc66d5929c38035753

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