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Debian DSA-1388-3 Critical: DHCP Buffer Overflow Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 29, 2007
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1390-5 addresses a critical exploit in the OpenSSL library. Immediate action is recommended.
The patch used to correct the DHCP server buffer overflow in DSA-1388-1 was incomplete and did not adequately resolve the problem
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Summary


Updates to the old stable version (sarge) are pending.

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

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 683 0b58f9e8eb121cf97c069580fe7f8d2a
Size/MD5 checksum: 109536 e05751df16af9fef3826de1b13b19694
Size/MD5 checksum: 294909 ab22f363a7aff924e2cc9d1019a21498

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 115986 5a3...

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