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Debian 2.2 DSA 102-1 Moderate: Daemon Heap Corruption Exploit

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2002
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Debian advisory DSA 102-1 highlights a daemon exploit causing heap corruption, urging immediate updates to affected packages.
zen-parse found a bug in the current implementation of at which leadsinto a heap corruption vulnerability which in turn could potentiallylead into an exploit of the daemon user.

Summary

zen-parse found a bug in the current implementation of at which leads
into a heap corruption vulnerability which in turn could potentially
lead into an exploit of the daemon user.

We recommend that you upgrade your at packages.

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 configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:


MD5 checksum: 5050a81922314ee1a01582e62ffdb00f

MD5 checksum: 9fec73d790aa854411bf02ae49888224

MD5 checksum: 1e83522666118b3eab4cb8e345e6da5a

Alpha architecture:


MD5 checksum: 9520a63861b8264d6811996b9b2f878d

ARM architecture:


MD5 ...

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Severity
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Package: at

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