Debian: DSA 320-1 Critical: Mikmod Buffer Overflow Threat Report

Ingo Saitz discovered a bug in mikmod whereby a long filename inside
an archive file can overflow a buffer when the archive is being read
by mikmod.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.6-4woody3.

For old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.6-2potato3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version
3.1.6-6.

We recommend that you update your mikmod 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 2.2 alias potato

Source archives:


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