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Debian DSA-2134-1 : upcoming changes in advisory format

info Nessus Plugin ID 51396

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Traditionally Debian Security Advisories have included MD5 check sums of the updated packages. This was introduced at a time when apt didn't exist yet and BIND was at version 4.

Since apt cryptographically enforces the integrity of the archive for quite some time now, we've decided to finally drop the hash values from our advisory mails.

We'll also change some details of the advisory format in the upcoming months.

Solution

n/a

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2134

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 51396

File Name: debian_DSA-2134.nasl

Version: Revision: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2011

Updated: 1/21/2012

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Reference Information

DSA: 2134