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05-20-2008

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USN-612-7: OpenSSH update

Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2008-0166

Description:
=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-612-7 May 20, 2008 openssh update CVE-2008-0166 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: openssh-server 1:4.2p1-7ubuntu3.4 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: USN-612-2 introduced protections for OpenSSH, related to the OpenSSL vulnerabilities addressed by USN-612-1. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenSSH in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. While the OpenSSL in Ubuntu 6.06 is not vulnerable, this update will block weak keys generated on systems that may have been affected themselves. Original advisory details: A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. This particularly affects the use of encryption keys in OpenSSH, OpenVPN and SSL certificates.

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wmanagerrc-update

WMANAGERRC-UPDATE(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				      WMANAGERRC-UPDATE(1)

NAME

     wmanagerrc-update -- update your wmanager settings automatically

SYNOPSIS

     wmanagerrc-update

DESCRIPTION

     The wmanagerrc-update program creates or updates the ~/.wmanagerrc file with a list of X11 window managers currently installed on the system.
     On systems that do not have a convention for registering X window managers, wmanagerrc-update simply copies the contents of the
     ~/.wmanagerrc.user file to ~/.wmanagerrc.

     On systems that register the installed X window managers, the wmanagerrc-update program adds all of them to the wmanager(1) configuration so
     that they are available soon after installation.  Currently, only Debian GNU/Linux and similar systems that use the update-alternaties(8)
     mechanism are supported.  Locally installed window managers and things not registered as alternatives for x-window-manager(1) can be added to
     the file ~/.wmanagerrc.user in the .wmanagerrc format; see the wmanager(1) README file, usually /usr/share/doc/wmanager/README.gz, for more
     information.  The wmanagerrc-update program uses the entries first from ~/.wmanagerrc.user, then from the the registered window managers, in
     the order of update-alternatives(8) priorities.  You can override this by listing entries in wanted order in ~/.wmanagerrc.order, separated
     by whitespace.

BUGS

     Concurrent wmanagerrc-update processes may clobber the .wmanagerrc file.

SEE ALSO

     wmanager(1), wmanager-loop(1), update-alternatives(8)

HISTORY

     The wmanagerrc-update program was written by Tommi Virtanen in 2000 and later modified by Peter Pentchev.	This manual page was originally
     written in perldoc format by Tommi Virtanen in 2000, and converted to mdoc format and updated by Peter Pentchev in 2008.

AUTHORS

     Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
     Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>

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