Debian 4.0 High: DSA-1748-1 Libsoup Integer Overflow Threat

It was discovered that libsoup, an HTTP library implementation in C,
handles large strings insecurely via its Base64 encoding functions. This
could possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code.


For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.98-2+etch1.

The stable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this issue.

The testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid)
are not affected by this issue.


We recommend that you upgrade your libsoup packages.


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.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Debian (oldstable)
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