Debian: DSA 1280-1 Critical: Aircrack-ng Remote Execution Risk
debian
April 24, 2007
It was discovered that aircrack-ng, a WEP/WPA security analysis tool,
performs insufficient validation of 802.11 authentication packets, which
allows the execution of arbitrary c...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.2-7etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.7-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your aircrack-ng packages. Packages for
the arm, sparc and mipsen architectures are not yet available. They
will be provided later.
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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 661 872aff5e32ad5c89a779578e3830b32d
Size/MD5 checksum: 47734 58cbd2a08adce2136967789ddf21fcac
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