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Debian: DSA 030-2 Moderate: XFree86 DoS and Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2001
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Keep abreast of DSA 030-2 related to XFree86 security issues, and verify that all essential patches are implemented to uphold the integrity of your Debian operating system.
Several people have noted a number of problems in several components of the X Window System sample implementation.

Summary

Several people have noted a number of problems in several components
of the X Window System sample implementation (from which XFree86 is
derived). Please read DSA 030-1 for a detailed description.

We recommend you upgrade your XFree86 packages immediately.

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

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
architectures. This advisory only covers m68k which was missing in
DSA 030-1 due to the slowliness of our m68k build box.


Motorola 680x0 architecture:


MD5 checksum: c26b2f84fb702ee6fc73518bb0f7e7ae

MD5 checksum: e0363d5a9da2b5e01cd7fbede1d8e283

MD5 checksum: 6462a334f10df17ba770eb08ef0d7ab3

MD5 checksum: 1a73a3251b7cc7d7dee035c27fba4a3b

MD5 c...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: xfree86-1

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