Debian Etch: DSA-1650-1 Critical OpenLDAP Denial Of Service
debian
October 12, 2008
Cameron Hotchkies discovered that the OpenLDAP server slapd, a free
implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, could be
crashed by sending malformed ASN1 reques...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.10-3 of the openldap package.
We recommend that you upgrade your openldap2.3 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 GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
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Size/MD5 checksum: 1205 d266aa1b763c9f0d91f7b062bfb65c86
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 1280050 180958ccc394210e2b04ac1c532118cd
Size/MD5 ch...
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