Debian 3.0: DSA 277-1 Critical: Apcupsd Buffer Overflow Remote Threat

The controlling and management daemon apcupsd for APC's Unbreakable
Power Supplies is vulnerable to several buffer overflows and format
string attacks. These bugs can be exploited remotely by an attacker to gain root
access to the machine apcupsd is running on.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.8.5-1.1.1.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem does not seem to
exist.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been
fixed in version 3.8.5-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your apcupsd packages immediately.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper con...