From the Debian announce list:
As is widely known by now the Linux 2.2.x kernels had a problem
with parsing IP options, which made them susceptible to a DoS
attack.
The Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 release for the Sun sparc architecture
uses such a kernel. If you are using such a system and haven’t
upgraded the kernel yourself, we recommend that you upgrade your
kernel-image package immediately. If you have a sun4u system please
use kernel-image-2.2.9-sun4u, otherwise use the normal
kernel-image-2.2.9 package.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/kernel-headers-2.2.9_2.2.9-2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 2d8724b357c1444741f2fdd626e38615
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/kernel-image-2.2.9-sun4u_2.2.9-2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: bbff1631f05124fed467d833276f8d68
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/kernel-image-2.2.9_2.2.9-2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 7c9e15ae2c7de1d84928660b964906ad
These files will be copied into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-sparc/
soon.
Please note you can also use apt to always get the latest
security updates. To do so add the following line to
/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates