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Debian: DSA 919-2 Critical: Curl Buffer Overflow Mitigation

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2006
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Enhance your Debian curl installations to address a buffer overflow vulnerability outlined in Security Advisory DSA 919-2.
Updated package.

Summary


For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 7.9.5-1woody2.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 7.13.2-2sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 7.15.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libcurl 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: 603 62a08f0dff0d09e2cfb773c04ec9cb39
Size/MD5 checksum: 16679 4f4699069b8b03a75561c00ae346266c
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