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Debian 3.0: DSA 605-2 Important: OpenSSL Vulnerability Mitigation

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2004
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Debian Advisory DSA 604-1 addresses a critical buffer overflow in hpsockd; users must upgrade to prevent potential exploits.
"infamous41md" discovered a buffer overflow condition in hpsockd, the socks server written at Hewlett-Packard

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.14.

We recommend that you upgrade your hpsockd package.


Upgrade Instructions
--------------------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
-------------------------------- Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 526 d5ac263f8a527e97c8d707977351805a
Size/MD5 checksum: 127019 2de411d806f925658b771ffb1c974c41

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 115444 65338a0efb88db831b690a4c76d70997

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 104214 fdd81a813a8023b9585603...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: hpsockd
CVE ID: CAN-2004-0993

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