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TITLE:
Debian update for acpid

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37885

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37885/

DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for acpid. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

For more information:
SA37536

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

-- Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch --

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 12642 576b3f99b475f0e984714d2dba996206
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 23416 3aff94e92186e99ed5fd6dcee2db7c74
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 624 3b758a4454f405522ba8ee5b73e3a22b

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 27162 b945487fde2ab7450bcd8feb0594838d

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 25530 8ccef2fa763433abf0f6273e54803254

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5etch2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 33764 1403c833448f94d9cfda9e3d065ad6e3


-- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny --

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 18805 5939243de9ac3c4199ab0b40ecdf4406
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1290 91e92e7e0e45e556bdf32b46193f3d29
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 25308 ee48ff966292ec517ba83b37dd0a3256

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 38026 dc5bf0d06eab4173ff4372d2e4204333

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 38026 37ff1d2999cccef9e4e88478be7043f4

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.8-1lenny2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42950 3c751d888490df8bcf726f2faf7d15c5

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DSA-1960-1:
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1960

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA37536:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37536/

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