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Debian 3.0: DSA 993-2 Moderate: GnuPG Programming Error Remote Issue

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2006
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Debian has issued advisory DSA 994-3 regarding the openssl package to address a critical memory corruption issue that could potentially allow unauthorized access.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.1-1.sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.2.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg 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: 579 b34d5a5996b358e713e2e8bb71dc6404
Size/MD5 checksum: 7866 5e36a3c06fae2b3d96a9db65988fffbd
Size/MD5 checksum: 1941676 7c319a9e5e70ad9bc3bf0d7b5008a508

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 115071...

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