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Debian DSA-990-1: bluez-hcidump Fix For Denial Of Service Attack

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 990-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 10th, 2006 h
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.17-1sarge1

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.30-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your bluez-hcidump 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 658 a9dc728db66dd5cd9673061f92a6950d
Size/MD5 checksum: 2264 4664fa6a395fc50dd23a4708f6e54395
Size/MD5 checksum: 112038 4a3f4606dd42d50ef878b4d5a8cce277

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 53...

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