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Debian 3.0 Advisory: DSA 587-1 Moderate Freeamp Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2004
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Debian addresses security vulnerability in the freeamp software, mitigating risks of remote code execution. Ensure your system is updated!
Luigi Auriemma discovered a buffer overflow condition in the playlist module of freeamp which could lead to arbitrary code execution

Summary

Luigi Auriemma discovered a buffer overflow condition in the playlist
module of freeamp which could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Recent versions of freeamp were renamed into zinf.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.1.0-4woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem does not exist in the
zinf packageas the code in question was rewritten.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeamp 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 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:


Size/MD5 checksum: ...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: freeamp
CVE ID: CAN-2004-0964

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