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Debian: DSA 920-1 Critical: Ethereal Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2005
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Debian Security Announcement DSA 910-1 responds to a stack overflow flaw in wireshark, permitting unauthorized code execution.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.10.10-2sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal 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: 681 fd2549fde25a12ea89ff76f16f476a1b
Size/MD5 checksum: 46176 b28a169806ac6c7357bc59cb684ce067
Size/MD5 checksum: 3278908 42e999daa659820ee93aaaa39ea1e9ea

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1941098 7ea0414541...

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