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Debian: DSA 1041-1 Critical: abc2ps Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2006
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Debian releases a new version of abc2ps package addressing critical buffer overflow and potential code execution vulnerabilities. Users are advised to perform an upgrade.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.3-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.3-3sarge1.

We recommend that you upgrade your abc2ps 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 574 2bf8bde7a186ba1d93794f76ca19a21a
Size/MD5 checksum: 12626 fc9f2d8362327652fbe36926a1011ea3
Size/MD5 checksum: 125327 720f41663251ea56c7d3456c09ccdb24

Alpha architecture:

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