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Debian: DSA-2082-2 Urgent: Libxslt Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey August 1, 2010
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Critical vulnerability patched in libmikmod distributions for Debian; update guidelines provided.
Tomas Hoger discovered that the upstream fix for CVE-2009-3995 was insufficient

Summary

Tomas Hoger discovered that the upstream fix for CVE-2009-3995 was
insufficient. This update provides a corrected package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.11-6.0.1+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.1.11-6.3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmikmod 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 updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 336967 c...

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Package: libmikmod

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