CVE-2006-5051
A signal handler race condition could potentially allow a remote
attacker to crash sshd and could theoretically lead to the
ability to execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.6
For the unstable and testing distributions, these problems have been
fixed in version 1:4.3p2-4
We recommend that you upgrade your openssh 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 3.1 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m...
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