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Debian: DSA 1100-1 Urgent: OpenSSL Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1095-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze June 10th, 2006 h
Updated package.

Summary


Several integer underflows have been discovered which could allow
remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2006-1861

Chris Evans discovered several integer overflows that lead to a
denial of service or could possibly even lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.

CVE-2006-2493

Several more integer overflows have been discovered which could
possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2006-2661

A null pointer dereference could cause a denial of service.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.9-1woody1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1.7-2.5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon

We recommend that you upgrade your libfreetype packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

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