Debian: DSA-2145-1: Security update for libsmi

Date 15 Jan 2011

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

Andres Lopez Luksenberg discovered a buffer overflow in the OID parser of libsmi, a library to access SMI MIB data. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2145-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                        Moritz Muehlenhoff
January 16, 2011                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : libsmi
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2010-2891

Andres Lopez Luksenberg discovered a buffer overflow in the OID parser
of libsmi, a library to access SMI MIB data.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.7+dfsg-0.2.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.8+dfsg2-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.8+dfsg2-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libsmi packages.

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