Debian: DSA-1584-1 Critical: Libfishsound Integer Overflow Exploit
debian
May 21, 2008
It was discovered that libfishsound, a simple programming interface that
wraps Xiph.Org audio codecs, didn't correctly handle negative values in
a particular header field
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.7.0-2.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your libfishsound 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 4.0 alias etch
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