Debian: DSA-1666-1 Severe: libxmp Memory Corruption Warning
debian
November 12, 2008
It was discovered that a heap overflow in the CDDB retrieval code of
libcdaudio, a library for controlling a CD-ROM when playing audio CDs,
may result in the execution of arbitr...
Summary
For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable
distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.12p2-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your libcdaudio 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
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 637 4edcf130e77084b440f551d9a9afdc3a
Size/MD5 checksum: 17703 6e523c81ea161401162d39d981e27cf2
Size/MD5 checksum: 356047 15de3830b751818a54a42899bd3ae72c
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 53334 1dc4587c71e25acb6b2dfd305de...
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