Debian: DSA 744-1 Critical: ht Memory Corruption And Buffer Underflow

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team discovered an
integer overflow in the ELF parser.

CAN-2005-1546

The authors have discovered a buffer overflow in the PE parser.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed
in version 0.5.0-1woody4. For the HP Precision architecture, you are
advised not to use this package anymore since we cannot provide
updated packages as it doesn't compile anymore.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8.0-2sarge4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version ht_0.8.0-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your ht 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
...