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Debian: DSA 1367-2 Critical: Kernel Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey September 6, 2007
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- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory
It was discovered that a buffer overflow of the RPC library of the MIT Kerberos reference implementation allows the execution of arbitrary code. The original patch from DSA-1367-...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.4-7etch4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your Kerberos 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 876 77cfeed4304b589e90db0651c8350d92
Size/MD5 checksum: 1589790 dab0c692e09564434a645b13646e5fdd
Size/MD5 checksum: 11017910 a675e5953bb8a29b5c6eb6f4ab0bb32a

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 181199...

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