Debian: DSA-1494-1 Critical Local Privilege Escalation - Kernel Memory

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1.

In addition to these fixes, this update also incorporates changes from the
upcoming point release of the stable distribution.

The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.

The unstable (sid) and testing distributions will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 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
The remaining updates will follow.

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