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Debian: DSA 765-1 Critical Heimdal Buffer Overflow Remote Risk

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2005
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Summary


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

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.3-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your heimdal 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
Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1065 8fc37ea432a8120da0f370b0b2c9125b
Size/MD5 checksum: 1295043 b27c9a952ed6a53698d654b2dbca9b52
Size/MD5 checksum: 2885718 1d27b06ec2f818f5b4ae2b90ca0e9cb8

Architecture independent components:

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