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Debian: DSA 670-1 Critical: Emacs Format String Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2005
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Summary


The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain an Emacs20 package
anymore.

We recommend that you upgrade your emacs 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: 623 a1747d7a2adc0269123d7b9430782f81
Size/MD5 checksum: 63385 e3762c400bee11fbfdb7aaf520854fa6
Size/MD5 checksum: 18451553 879d5eaf52f0063a2948a0e1cfc3e886

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 5733996 bde64de09a9b2485b81aaaecd9318d97

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 check...

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