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Debian: DSA 926-2 Critical: Ketm Local Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2005
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Debian's DSA 926-2 highlights a critical buffer overflow in ketm, presenting potential privilege escalation vulnerabilities; an upgrade is advised.

Updated package.

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Summary


For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.6-7woody0.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.6-17sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.6-17sarge1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ketm 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 601 689826ac63e2c43800b4a95477e4e025
Size/MD5 checksum: 102455 3d95dffde08a37f92b547b0d5c5cdd1f
Size/MD5 checksum: 230031...

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