Debian: DSA 623-1 Critical: Nasm Buffer Overflow Code Execution
debian
January 4, 2005
Jonathan Rockway discovered a buffer overflow in nasm, the general-purpose x86 assembler, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when compiling a maliciously crafted a...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.98.38-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your nasm 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:
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Size/MD5 checksum: 26048 2108831b98639b53b09aa4548915e4cc
Size/MD5 checksum: 537305 1d2465d345d51f1c2ce2c9c076438bc6
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 759992 9206150e538f1fb3098ac5481f495366
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: nasm
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1287
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