Debian: DSA-1458-1 Critical OpenAFS Denial Service Attack
debian
January 10, 2008
A race condition in the OpenAFS fileserver allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by simultaneously acquiring and
giving back file callbacks, which c...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.81-3sarge3
We recommend that you upgrade your openafs 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 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 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 851 e976cc846cb191828237473b1d0e4983
Size/MD5 checksum: 13455346 d754e92f7a0cd9824991c850e001884c
Size/MD5 checksum: 261881 e28ed82f25816569ae6f1e74c7cd651b
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