Debian: USN-5148-1 Critical: Libdumb Buffer Overflow Warning Notice
debian
July 24, 2006
Luigi Auriemma discovered that DUMB, a tracker music library, performs insufficient sanitising of values parsed from IT music files, which might lead to a buffer overflow and execu...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.3-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your libdumb 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 3.1 alias sarge
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Alpha architecture:
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