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Debian: DSA 644-1 Critical: Chbg Code Execution Risk from Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey January 18, 2005
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Debian Security Notice DSA 645-2 alerts about a potential vulnerability in xterm, which could allow unauthorized access through specially crafted documents.
Danny Lungstrom discoverd a vulnerability in chbg, a tool to change background pictures

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your chbg 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: 600 3cb28b61fb97dca63f09a486dae5612f
Size/MD5 checksum: 3612 08098cf0fec406380e968186766de027
Size/MD5 checksum: 322878 4a158c94c25b359c86da1de9ef3e986b

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 294456 afd6ce377d43c0df909d955e04c328cd

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 247338 87...

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