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Debian: DSA-685-1 Critical: Emacs21 Remote Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2005
Scroller Debian
Critical vulnerability resolved in emacs22 packages according to Debian Security Announcement DSA 686-1. Update advised.
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 21.3+1-9.

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: 685 7b2d6f448bda83cde50bfbdac6af3c37
Size/MD5 checksum: 60779 26c73195d7bc0ec32cb49d1a39c27cd9
Size/MD5 checksum: 24072376 3ac8d47ce8a61f2e585e6359efc53f07

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 7123990 91e9e9e5d2a36e5e69854c5207f9e03c

Alpha architecture:

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