Debian: DSA 569-1 Critical: Netkit-Telnet Denial Of Service Threat

Michal Zalewski discovered a bug in the netkit-telnet server (telnetd)
whereby a remote attacker could cause the telnetd process to free an
invalid pointer. This causes the telnet server process to crash,
leading to a straightforward denial of service (inetd will disable the
service if telnetd is crashed repeatedly), or possibly the execution
of arbitrary code with the privileges of the telnetd process (by
default, the 'telnetd' user).

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.17.17+0.1-2woody2

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.17.24+0.1-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your netkit-telnet-ssl 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 ...