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Debian: DSA 758-1 Critical: Heimdal Buffer Overflow Remote Access

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2005
Scroller Debian
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the telnet server from Heimdal, a free implementation of Kerberos 5, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.3-10sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.3-11.

We recommend that you upgrade your heimdal packages.


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: 1065 7ab9f0c64ced324bfb35f4963ff9d771
Size/MD5 checksum: 1294453 511f3ad987650f6a3d2cdf06b13638e3
Size/MD5 checksum: 2885718 1d27b06ec2f818f5b4ae2b90ca0e9cb8

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD...

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