Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.1 released

March 19th, 2011

The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename squeeze ). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.

Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian 6.0 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away 6.0 CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated.

Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.

New CD and DVD images containing updated packages and the regular installation media accompanied with the package archive respectively will be available soon at the regular locations.

Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the aptitude (or apt) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available at:

Miscellaneous Bugfixes

This stable update adds a few important corrections to the following packages:

Package Reason apt-dater Correct syntax of default configuration file base-files Update /etc/debian_version for the point release cdebconf Allow the GTK frontend to be used in a window managed environment clamav New upstream bugfix release clive Adapt for youtube.com changes cmake Rebuild upstream tarball to remove undistributable Windows build systems files console-setup Fix Swiss German, Bulgarian and Swedish keymaps in the installer cryptsetup Install cryptkeyctl initramfs hook; lukadmin: avoid possible race conditions by invoking udevadm settle dbconfig-common Fix version sorting logic bug on upgrade files in postinst debian-reference Refer to squeeze-updates rather than volatile; fix URL for Debian Mirror Checker debootstrap Fix --private-key and ar usage deluge Fix hang on quit desktop-base Fix plymouth output in dual-screen configurations devscripts Make squeeze the default backports target; add wheezy{,-ignore} tags eclipse Fix XSS in help browser application exuberant-ctags Use memmove rather than strcpy on overlapping strings ganeti Don't break permissions of /var/lock when running gnt-node add gdm3 Handle del{group,user} failures gracefully; fix grep usage; use correct names for UTF-8 locales gedit Fix important mistake in the Brazilian Portuguese translation git Fix escaping in gitweb, new add.ignoreErrors variable gnome-screensaver Disable non-functional libnotify support gnumed-client Install translations to the correct location grub-installer Set debconf title to avoid reusing a previous one ia32-libs Refresh packages from stable and proposed-updates ia32-libs-core Refresh packages from stable and proposed-updates ia32-libs-gtk Refresh packages from stable and proposed-updates installation-guide Update content for squeeze katoob Fix crash when setting tooltips kde4libs Add a kconf_update script to migrate away from old KDE3 icon themes kdebase-workspace Fix random but common krunner crashes kernel-wedge Add hid-cherry and sdhci_pci modules kfreebsd-8 Fix local DoS in TCP stack; emulate Catalan's middle-dot l/L characters by ASCII l/L kgb-bot Fix version check to allow possible future security updates krusader Properly fix problems terminating the application libapache-mod-jk Ease upgrades from lenny by disabling SOCK_CLOEXEC use libemail-mime-createhtml-perl Add missing dependency on libfile-policy-perl libvirt Make init script status target exit statuses LSB-compliant to assist monitoring linux-2.6 Several fixes linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6 Rebuild against linux-2.6 2.6.32-31 linux-kernel-di-armel-2.6 Rebuild against linux-2.6 2.6.32-31 linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6 Rebuild against linux-2.6 2.6.32-31 linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6 Rebuild against linux-2.6 2.6.32-31 linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6 Rebuild against linux-2.6 2.6.32-31 linux-kernel-di-mipsel-2.6 Rebuild against linux-2.6 2.6.32-31 linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6 Rebuild against linux-2.6 2.6.32-31 linux-kernel-di-s390-2.6 Rebuild against linux-2.6 2.6.32-31 linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 Rebuild against linux-2.6 2.6.32-31 magpierss Fix cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2011-0740) mcabber Fix crash, segfault, command-line corruption and FD leaks mediawiki Fix a CSS injection vulnerability mediawiki-extensions PHP 5.3 compatibility fixes for the confirmedit plugin nautilus Fix crash in nautilus_file_peek_display_name() network-manager Only comment out exact matches in /etc/network/interfaces; normalise keys in ifupdown parser; correctly handle device removal ocrodjvu Fix upside-down generation of hocr data ocsigen Add missing dependencies on lib{lwt-ssl,ocsigen-xhtml}-ocaml-dev pdftk Support prompting for both owner and user passwords; allow filenames to start with odd , even or end pulseaudio Fix pacmd hanging in poll() when reading from stdin very early python-defaults Use full path to Python interpreters in pycompile to ease lenny to squeeze upgrades samba Missing input sanitising sobby Ensure session files are writable by the sobby user sudo Resolve interoperability issues between -H and HOME in env_keep sun-java6 Several security fixes ttf-liberation Correctly flag Liberation Mono as monospaced tzdata New upstream release; update Chilean DST usb-modeswitch-data Fix modeswitching lines for Huawei devices; add support for more devices why Mark Squeeze's Coq version as a compatible prover xorg-server Fix crashes with MCE remotes; fix rotation [nvidia]; drop support for XF86Config-4 xserver-xorg-video-intel Fix null pointer dereference and SDL-related issues

Debian Installer

The Debian Installer has been updated in this point release to correct the following issues (among others):

the activation of squeeze-updates on installations without a network mirror caused a failure to be shown,

the Swiss German, Bulgarian and Swedish keyboard layouts were unusable during installation and

wait longer for disks to initialize.

Furthermore it now supports installation on the following hardware:

QNAP TS-112, TS-212 and TS-412 (new)

QNAP TS-419P+ (new)

Buffalo Linkstation LiveV3 (new)

Buffalo Linkstation Mini (new)

iBook G4 (restored)

Cobalt (restored)

SPARC hardware (restored functionality using CD-ROM installation media and atyfb graphics cards)

The kernel image used by the installer has been updated to incorporate a number of important and security-related fixes together with support for additional hardware.

Security Updates

This revision adds the following security updates to the stable release. The Security Team has already released an advisory for each of these updates:

Advisory ID Package Correction(s) DSA-2157 postgresql-8.4 Buffer overflow DSA-2158 cgiirc Cross-site scripting flaw DSA-2160 tomcat6 Several issues DSA-2162 openssl Invalid memory access DSA-2163 python-django Cross-site scripting and CSRF protection improvements DSA-2163 dajaxice Compatibility fix for CSRF protection improvements DSA-2164 shadow Missing input sanitization DSA-2166 chromium-browser Several vulnerabilities DSA-2167 phpmyadmin SQL injection DSA-2168 openafs Several vulnerabilities DSA-2169 telepathy-gabble Missing input validation DSA-2170 mailman Several vulnerabilities DSA-2171 asterisk Buffer overflow DSA-2173 pam-pgsql Buffer overflow DSA-2174 avahi Denial of service DSA-2175 samba Missing input sanitising DSA-2177 pywebdav SQL injection DSA-2178 pango1.0 NULL pointer dereference DSA-2180 iceape Several vulnerabilities DSA-2182 logwatch Remote code execution DSA-2184 isc-dhcp Denial of service DSA-2185 proftpd-dfsg Integer overflow DSA-2186 iceweasel Several vulnerabilities DSA-2187 icedove Several vulnerabilities DSA-2189 chromium-browser Several vulnerabilities DSA-2190 wordpress Several vulnerabilities DSA-2192 chromium-browser Several vulnerabilities

URLs

The complete lists of packages that have changed with this revision:

The current stable distribution:

Proposed updates to the stable distribution:

Stable distribution information (release notes, errata etc.):

Security announcements and information:

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