Debian: DSA-1471-1 Critical: libvorbis Denial Of Service
debian
January 21, 2008
Several vulnerabilities were found in the the Vorbis General Audio
Compression Codec, which may lead to denial of service or the
execution of arbitrary code, if a user is trick...
Topics Covered
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.2.dfsg-1.3.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.1.0-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your libvorbis 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 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 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 680 b5ec6d8d0c0ff4685c78590293477e4b
Size/MD5 checksum: 1312404 bb764aeab...
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