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Debian 5.0 DSA-1972-1 Critical: Audiofile Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2010
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The latest Debian security update DSA-1973-2 resolves a critical flaw in the graphicsmagick package, effectively mitigating risks of unauthorized access.
Max Kellermann discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the handling of ADPCM WAV files in libaudiofile

Summary

The old stable distribution (etch), this problem will be fixed in
version 0.2.6-6+etch1.

The packages for the oldtable distribution are not included in this
advisory. An update will be released soon.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.2.6-7+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.6-7.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your audiofile 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 5.0 alias lenny (stable)

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, ...

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