Debian 3.0 DSA 590-1 Critical: Gnats Format String Remote Execution

Khan Shirani discovered a format string vulnerability in gnats, the
GNU problem report management system. This problem may be exploited
to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnats 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 3.0 alias woody
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