Debian 5.0 DSA-2087-1 Critical: Cabextract Arbitrary Code Execution

It was discovered that a programming error in the archive test mode of
cabextract, a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files, could lead to
the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-3+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your cabextract package.

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:

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