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Debian 3.1 DSA 894-1 Critical: Fix for AbiWord Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2005
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Critical vulnerability patched in new AbiWord releases for Debian, mitigating serious buffer overflow threats.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.2.7-3sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.2.10-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your abiword 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: 1159 9210aac9957b6cd207775862a1d45f1f
Size/MD5 checksum: 50123 0f3df3436e43ce1d5da4b4c21e221bcf
Size/MD5 checksum: 16407034 0b0e1f3e42a0627a28cea970b099049d

Architecture independent components:

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