Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1150-1] New shadow packages fix privilege escalation

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 09:11:16PM +0200, Steffen Hoffmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> just a question: I can't find a package by this name "shadow". So
> what's this all about?

That's the source package name - if you look towards the end of the
advisory you'll see a list of binary packages that are built from it:

> >   Intel IA-32 architecture:
> > 
> >     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_i386.deb
> >       Size/MD5 checksum:   575962 da7d31edbc2ae8efa062efceb7412403
> >     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_i386.deb
> >       Size/MD5 checksum:   528482 674bc0f5a55b5a9c089776946881912e
> > 


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dann frazier