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Debian 3.0 DSA-709-1: Critical Libexif Buffer Overflow Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey April 15, 2005
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Uncover the solution for the buffer overflow vulnerability in libexif for Debian. Insights on patches and the criticality of the security issue.
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.9-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your libexif 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: 588 c5f9941eb60839a174b36ca5ef2e05ab
Size/MD5 checksum: 2414 64f21ec303cd05c2d0bf15521e7707a0
Size/MD5 checksum: 178556 76dd5547de0f0e707d5049fe751c4679

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 33402 68eca22ffef823e64bedf3db14c7778a
Size/MD5 checksum: 27170 f8b1016e5dc5acad95e...

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