Debian 3.0 DSA 385-1 Moderate: hztty Local Buffer Overflow Threat

Jens Steube reported a pair of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in
hztty, a program to translate Chinese character encodings in a
terminal session. These vulnerabilities could be exploited by a local
attacker to gain root privileges on a system where hztty is installed.

Additionally, hztty had been incorrectly installed setuid root, when
it only requires the privileges of group utmp. This has also been
corrected in this update.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0-5.2woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will befixed in
version 2.0-6.

We recommend that you update your hztty 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 a...