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Debian 3.x: DSA-1064-1 Critical: Cscope Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2006
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The Debian Security Notice DSA-1064-1 highlights a critical buffer overflow issue found in cscope, aimed at mitigating potential code execution risks associated with known vulnerabilities.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 15.5-1.1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your cscope 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: 593 d36603717733dc8ff49914eaf4300381
Size/MD5 checksum: 8034 83507ba06fb031e63f3b6cb260620166
Size/MD5 checksum: 196580 7540514aab8c0a3737ee8dd08a5422ba

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 130048 d729693cb35541...

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