Debian alert: New sparc packages of OpenSSH released

Posted by dave on Jan 28, 2001 2:39 AM EDT
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A former security upload of OpenSSH lacked support for PAM which lead into people not being able to log in into their server. This was only a problem on the sparc architecture.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-025-1                       security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                               Martin Schulze
January 28, 2001
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Package        : openssh
Vulnerability  : Missing PAM support
Debian-specific: yes

A former security upload of OpenSSH lacked support for PAM which lead
into people not being able to log in into their server.  This was only
a problem on the sparc architecture.

We recommend you upgrade your ssh packages on sparc.

wget url
	will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
  architectures.  This is only a recompile for the sparc architecture
  and thus no new source and no other binary packages are provided


  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/ssh_1.2.3-9.2_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 41fe81f3eb8e87741b2a1c5bc913eab4
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/ssh-askpass-gnome_1.2.3-9.2_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 5a3201c862319b986daf4c3654be73cc


  These files will be moved into
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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