[SECURITY] New versions of bash fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that the bash shell had a problem with very long pathnames. When a very long path was encountered bash failed to check the result of getcwd in all places, which could be exploited. We recommend you upgrade your bash package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for yo...

[SECURITY] New versions of apache fixes denial of services

We have received a report from Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav who says that the apache as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 is vulnerable to a denial of services exploit, where repeated, identical headers can consume On^2 memory. We recommend you upgrade your apache package immediately. wget url...

[SECURITY] New versions of cfingerd fixes root compromise

We have received a report that a user can execute arbitrary commands from a .plan or .project file. While the option that would allow this is disabled by default the system is vulnerable if the system admin had this option enabled. We recommend you upgrade your cfingerd package immediately. dpkg ...

CVE-1999-1085

SSH 1.2.25, 1.2.23, and other versions, when used in in CBC Cipher Block Chaining or CFB Cipher Feedback 64 bits modes, allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary data into an existing stream between an SSH client and server by using a known plaintext attack and computing a valid CRC-32 checksum...

[SECURITY] Current versions of mailx fixes /tmp problem

Former versions of mailx used an unsecure means of opening files beneath /tmp for writing. This can be used to damage files in a users directory or even systemwide. We recommend you upgrade your mailx package immediately. dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1...

[SECURITY] Security fixed versions of sparc binaries available

==================================================================== Debian GNU/Linux Security May 17, 1998 We have received reports that former versions of procps, shadow, fakeroot, gzip, perl and bind in hamm were vulnerable to some exploits. Please refer to the following web pages to get more...