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Debian 3.1: DSA 869-1 Critical: Eric Package Code Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey October 21, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 869-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 21st, 2005
Updated Package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.6.2-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.7.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your eric 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 579 05a3dde271a09b3dfea7f43200f22011
Size/MD5 checksum: 9935 deab4c118e9e349f2424a3a84becfc28
Size/MD5 checksum: 2161575 1fdcba2aa0f4c0fce2a7c49668cebd60

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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