Debian Etch: DSA-1626-1 Moderate: Httrack Buffer Overflow Risk
debian
August 1, 2008
Joan Calvet discovered that httrack, a utility to create local copies of
websites, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow potentially allowing to
execute arbitrary code when passed e...
Summary
For the testing (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has
been fixed in version 3.42.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your httrack 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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 950 277074178046b94ceebefa5f5eaee9de
Size/MD5 checksum: 1626176 9e4de064afc1dfcb6f50b773f8081f1c
Size/MD5 checksum: 7597 005a605bfabc7f0830d8db87d3ee67fe
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 516676 9f2c726cbc7e6f97dfeda4f8a72c8e77
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
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