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Debian: DSA-832-1 Critical: Gopher Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2005
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Multiple vulnerabilities related to buffer overflows in the gopher protocol have been addressed. Ensure to update your software packages to enhance protection against potential remote attacks.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.7sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.11.

We recommend that you upgrade your gopher 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: 552 a327347b4ca41edceaa5280b28f2e5d5
Size/MD5 checksum: 508988 58d4e3328a390b9fc0ddefe1c0df5a51

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 151748 8bc114553f10115b8271fe8acd94a73e
Size/MD5 checksum: 120354 30f...

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