Debian 2.2 DSA-103-1 Critical: Glibc Buffer Overflow Threat

Package : glibc
Problem type : buffer overflow
Debian-specific: no

A buffer overflow has been found in the globbing code for glibc.
This code which is used to glob patterns for filenames and is
commonly used in applications like shells and FTP servers.

This has been fixed in versino 2.1.3-20 and we recommend that
you upgrade your libc package immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

Source archives:

MD5 checksum: e5cf2d13e53ca90a934def7142349d1b

MD5 checksum: dd43f4c504f34c31a5455697d5d3495e

MD5 checksum: aea1bb5c28f793013153d1b8f91eb746

Architecture independent archives:

MD5 checksum: 53f5d098af3f144227f0a6e758229b65

MD5 checksum: 1a5478744de731a27f58b4db2d320b1e

Alpha architecture:


MD5 checksum: a10226ad44980...