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Debian 4.0 Moderate: DSA-1972-2 Critical Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2010
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Enhance your Ubuntu multimedia libraries to resolve a significant security vulnerability impacting operational reliability.
This advisory adds the packages for the old stable distribution (etch), with the exception of the mips packages

Summary

The packages for the stable distribution (lenny) have been released
in DSA-1972-1. For reference, the advisory text is provided below.

Max Kellermann discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the handling
of ADPCM WAV files in libaudiofile. This flaw could result in a denial
of service (application crash) or possibly execution of arbitrary code
via a crafted WAV file.

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

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 inter...

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