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Debian: DSA 1081-1 Critical: Libextractor Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2006
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Potential vulnerability addressed in libextractor packages on Debian systems. Users are advised to perform an upgrade.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.2-2sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5.14-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor 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 at the end of this advisory:

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

Size/MD5 checksum: 778 c3215a74f69c129ed235db8b5fe178e6
Size/MD5 checksum: 7079 d2037e9f74bef85bf4a73f852ddfafad
Size/MD5 checksum: 5887095 d99e1b13a017d39700e376a0edbf7ba2

Alpha architecture:

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