Debian: DSA 1394-1 Moderate: Reprepro Authentication Bypass Exploited
debian
October 23, 2007
It was discovered that reprepro, a tool to create a repository of Debian
packages, when updating from a remote site only checks for the validity of
known signatures, and thus doe...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.1+1-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your reprepro 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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 934 a9e32d707c054a2835e49b11d84abe79
Size/MD5 checksum: 6837 478f94313599732c8f8defa8ec7c2e60
Size/MD5 checksum: 294938 8f171568b73b258bcf2e83a424c741c6
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 233240 cd12...
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