Debian 3.1 DSA 1020-1 Critical: Flex Buffer Overflow Threat

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.31-31sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.33-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your flex 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 3.1 alias sarge

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