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Debian: DSA 730-1 Critical: bzip2 Race Condition Security Issue

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2005
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Debian's DSA 731-1 highlights addressing security flaws in gzip tools involving improper file handling stemming from a timing attack weakness.
Updated package.

Summary


For the testing distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.2-6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.2-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your bzip2 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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 577 096bfd852f8d33c3e14d3988982a1569
Size/MD5 checksum: 8674 edf89c2f7477c6bf7c326cd498c93cf6
Size/MD5 checksum: 665198 ee76864958d568677f03db8afad92beb

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 233744 aa8f4...

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