Debian 4.0 DSA-1469-1 Critical: FLAC Buffer Overflow Code Execution
debian
January 20, 2008
Sean de Regge and Greg Linares discovered multiple heap and stack based
buffer overflows in FLAC, the Free Lossless Audio Codec, which could
lead to the execution of arbitrary co...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.2-8.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been
fixed in version 1.1.1-5sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your flac 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 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 291696 271b7342b38091dd7a9ff8c882acff3f
Size/MD5 checksum: 1467204 c6ccddccf8ad344...
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