Debian: DSA-1538-1 Critical: Alsaplayer Buffer Overflow Attack
debian
April 4, 2008
Erik Sjölund discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Ogg
Vorbis input plugin of the alsaplayer audio playback application.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerabil...
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), the problem was fixed in version
0.99.80~rc4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your alsaplayer packages.
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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 1411 f1cef8ce08af0bc84cc18f45bf54774b
Size/MD5 checksum: 179628 f2af0197803ce618482ecdc6c78b420e
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 27560 e1b68d62513e27add20da78f6820b1f4
Size/MD5 checksum: 28082 c66cc4df7b809c81df49de084b462205
Size/MD5 checksum: 27270 6f75fda99af97920257383affe...
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