Debian 3.1: DSA-1016-1 Critical: Evolution Format String Remote Threat
debian
March 23, 2006
Ulf H�rnhammar discovered several format string vulnerabilities in
Evolution, a free groupware suite, that could lead to crashes of the
application or the execution of arbitrar...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.4-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.2.3-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your evolution 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 3.0 alias woody
Size/MD5 checksum: 992 4bafc18ff115d57baa3ecd24feaea244
Size/MD5 checksum: 16997 91088d27d6ae64632db5d8fd8eb38f68
Size/MD5 checksum: 15010672 d2ffe374b453d28f5456db5af0a7983c
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: ...
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