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Debian: DSA 718-1 Important: Remote Attack Vulnerability in Ethereal

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2005
Scroller Debian
Enhance digital packages to address a memory overflow weakness that could enable distant threats to compromise systems.
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.10.10-1.

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: 612 b928187dd8f03148a2539d4b3c80b438
Size/MD5 checksum: 9649 fe452d3b07b843d9bdb0a62eea08b32e
Size/MD5 checksum: 152755 65864dfe72f5cb7d7e595ca6f34fc7d7

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 78456 67eb74ad4ef6f7b11fb6d0c84e97e885

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum:...

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