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Debian: DSA 727-1 Critical: Libconvert Uulib Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2005
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The Debian Security Notice DSA 728-1 tackles a critical vulnerability found in libimage-magick-perl affecting various installations.
Updated package.
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security advisory buffer overflow debian package update arbitrary code execution release update libconvert

Summary


For the testing (sarge) and unstable (sid) distributions this problem
has been fixed in version 1.0.5.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libconvert-uulib-perl 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: 657 fd6e57ac7638a87870b764f9e33b75d0
Size/MD5 checksum: 2360 da8d0535347a1666befc8e0e3a8757ed
Size/MD5 checksum: 291809 62908cff06d03d63be8dfb24d32246f1

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 80730 3352fbb77e0f4688ac4d61432bb67d5a

ARM architecture:

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security advisory buffer overflow debian package update arbitrary code execution release update libconvert

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