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Debian 3.1: DSA 857-1 Critical Fix For Graphviz Local Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 857-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 10th, 2005
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.1-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.1-1sarge1.

We recommend that you upgrade your graphviz 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 788 0076de753bc31e2a61858db7275893c4
Size/MD5 checksum: 360551 19b83dc92ffc1628b17ad195c2c4c7ee
Size/MD5 checksum: 4371071 bb46d8ada39436cb672922f0c8b1339c

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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