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Debian 4.0 DSA 1365-2 Critical: id3lib Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2007
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Revise id3lib3.8.3 components to address a coding flaw leading to denial of service through symlink exploits in Debian.
Nikolaus Schulz discovered that a programming error in id3lib, an ID3 Tag Library, may lead to denial of service through symlink attacks.
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Summary


We recommend that you upgrade your id3lib3.8.3 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 4.0 alias etch

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Size/MD5 checksum: 135226 495cb5f4610853f02a740e9b7c1a71c5
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Alpha architecture:

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Size/MD5 checksum: 187286 a6cb95da944dfe5e1a28cbf5136f3b6f

AMD64 architecture:

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