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Debian: DSA 976-1 Urgent: Libast Code Execution Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2006
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Critical security flaw patched in libast for Debian's stable versions with key update guidance provided.
Johnny Mast discovered a buffer overflow in libast, the library of assorted spiffy things, that can lead to the execution of arbitary code
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6-0pre2003010606sarge1.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your libast 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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 611 7ae117d391242963294499b684e783b6
Size/MD5 checksum: 127092 fd7f99bde6a540fe50c27761b63e27cf
Size/MD5 checksum: 150283 9424286314c1d816699b28964b91d015

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 30314 549...

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