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Debian DSA-1387 Critical: librpcsecgss Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2007
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Uncover the latest update addressing the buffer overflow vulnerability in Debian's librpcsecgss, resolving serious risks of arbitrary code execution.
It has been discovered that the original patch for a buffer overflow in svc_auth_gss.c in the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library in MIT Kerberos 5 (CVE-2007-3999, DSA-1368-1) was insufficient ...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.14-2etch3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.14-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your librpcsecgss 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 1038 dbb737ea9be3a8c959754d43b63982f4
Size/MD5 checksum: 363503 0d4cdee46a98731b1b71e30504589281
Size/MD5 checksum: 1849 c7078a95bfcf735d6d31c2d5f3ef25cd

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 36716 ed385368f5108ea22...

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