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Debian 3.1 DSA 970-1 Critical Security Flaw Detected in Adzapper

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1012-1 covers a critical vulnerability in logwatch. Prompt update advised for system integrity.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 20050316-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 20060115-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your adzapper 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: 593 46351acfe636a0fa3bb74353708ba841
Size/MD5 checksum: 5525 0fc182315da374cac8c370d536caf1de
Size/MD5 checksum: 49003 c5e85d7664b873deea48f8ad16a5f68e

Architecture independent components:

Siz...

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