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Ubuntu 18.04: DSA 1156-4 Critical: vulnint Memory Leak Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2005
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Enhance your miau package to rectify the memory leak in xacast, safeguarding your Ubuntu environment.
Erik Sjölund discovered a buffer overflow in xatitv, one of the programs in the gatos package, that is used to display video with certain ATI video cards

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.5-15.

We recommend that you upgrade your gatos 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: 629 0005020205c97ebd6f2efdf146846c15
Size/MD5 checksum: 40976 34933c1e1da0fbb172ab919e23b68e02
Size/MD5 checksum: 483916 9c16631afc933bde6f5d5e1421efddb7

Intel IA-32 architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 148110 2d2e9c2ba2d429175cab205c6ce6860d
Size/MD5 checksum: 109748 4c1d0a17839934...

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