Debian: DSA-1731-1 Critical: Ndiswrapper Buffer Overflow Attack

Anders Kaseorg discovered that ndiswrapper suffers from buffer overflows
via specially crafted wireless network traffic, due to incorrectly
handling long ESSIDs. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary
code.


For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.28-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.53-2, which was already included in the lenny release.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.53-2.

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 configuration.


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