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Debian: DSA-1166-2 Critical: Cheesetracker Buffer Overflow Exploit Fix

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2006
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Debian has issued an update for Advisory DSA-1166-2 to fix a critical buffer overflow in cheesetracker, minimizing local exploit risks. Act now!
This update to DSA-1166 adds the architectures which were missing from the previous advisory

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.9-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.9-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your cheesetracker 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 3.1 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

Size/MD5 checksum: 1050496 e5a01ae14aa451723afad8e18bbe748f

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endia...

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