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Debian 3.1: DSA 1151-1 Important: Heartbeat Remote Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2006
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Potential security vulnerability identified in heartbeat packets on Debian systems. Urgent action needed to enhance protection.
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.4-14 and heartbeat-2 2.0.6-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your heartbeat packages.


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 at the end of this advisory:

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: 881 d083828302c007e3f48d23c00b971c4a
Size/MD5 checksum: 272913 34f413808e51132452d097a4439c427b
Size/MD5 checksum: 1772513 9fd126e5dff51cc8c1eee223c252a4af

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 45592 c3a399270f0058e117a45d0...

Read the Full Advisory

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