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Debian 4: DSA 1351-1 Critical: Bochs Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 7, 2007
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1351-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff August 7th, 2
Tavis Ormandy discovered that bochs, a highly portable IA-32 PC emulator, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the emulated NE2000 network device driver, which may lead to privi...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3+20070705-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your bochs 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 at the end of this advisory:

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: 1095 c68bfe59dd98276f0a9e1b97ae0bdfb4
Size/MD5 checksum: 119045 465bd12d05822820c485f4e65ab998b2
Size/MD5 checksum: 3633019 45022fbb35468fd725e205e2218d8a72

Architecture independent components:

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