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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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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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