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Debian 915-1 Critical: Helix-Player Remote Code Exec Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2005
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA 915-1 addresses a serious vulnerability in helix-player that could lead to remote code execution, urging users to update to secure their systems
Updated package.

Summary


The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a helix-player
package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.4-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your helix-player 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: 908 5abe49b8d746b78b1f70016382d44a35
Size/MD5 checksum: 9113 b7103af4ca93cb52cd548a4f7da43c3b
Size/MD5 checksum: 18044552 a2777...

Read the Full Advisory

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