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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Debian 6.0.10 "Squeeze", Final Version, released with Minor Security Fixes


The Debian community officially announces the release of Debian 6.0.10 which is the tenth and final update of stable Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" series. Well Debian 6.x series is active for quite a while and after particular interval it is updated with new packages and fixes. So this release is also updated with minor fixes along with updated packages. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know which distro has been released ?

According to official announcement, Debian 6.0.10 comes with corrections for security problems to the oldstable release along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

During its final release, Debian 6.0.10 does not includes packages from DSA 2727, DSA 2765, DSA 2893 and DSA 2912 because of some technical reasons, as are some architectures for DSA 2782, DSA 2809, DSA 2810, DSA 2868 and DSA 2886. All other security updates released during the lifetime of "squeeze" that have not previously been part of a point release are also included in this update. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Bug Fixes Made in Debian 6.0.10

- base-files : Update for the point release.
- catfish : Fix untrusted search path vulnerability.
- cups : Fix XSS in the web interface.
- debian-installer : Rebuild for the point release.
- exim4 : Robustness fix for the Dovecot authenticator; use exim's ${quote:xxx} operator when invoking spfquery to disallow bypassing of SPF validation by using special mailbox names.
- ia32-libs : Update packages from oldstable and oldstable-security.
- libdbi-perl : Remove dependency on to-be-removed libplrpc-perl.

These are some of the major security fixes which you may notice in this release. If you wish to check out detailed list of all fixes, then you must visit their official changelog page.

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