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Debian: DSA 1068-1 Critical: fbi Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2006
Scroller Debian
Urgent enhancements suggested for the fbi software owing to a potential service interruption vulnerability in Debian systems.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.01-1.2sarge1.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your fbi 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: 559 4aa635f3124ac9e654ad25c11f9c1420
Size/MD5 checksum: 58027 20831f12eaf6fd6f4faa928ad2d80428

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 49472 6004536fd8a9210c041bf7ab4570c254

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 4...

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