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Debian DSA-1230-1 Critical: L2tpns Buffer Overflow Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1230-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp December 08, 2006 Pac
Rhys Kidd discovered a vulnerability in l2tpns, a layer 2 tunnelling protocol network server, which could be triggered by a remote user to execute arbitary code.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.14-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.21-1

We recommend that you upgrade your l2tpns 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 3.1 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 149672 462bca675b5e27f40f5e5f92918911cb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2760 21dd07043e996a6deb282ad9318ff523
...

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