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Debian 4.0 DSA-1654-1 Critical: Libxml2 Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2008
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The latest Debian security advisory outlines critical updates for libxml2 designed to mitigate the risk of unauthorized code execution through specially crafted XML documents.
It was discovered that libxml2, the GNOME XML library, didn't correctly handle long entity names

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.32.dfsg-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 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: 220443 48cafbb8d1bd2c6093339fea3f14e4a0
Size/MD5 checksum: 3416175 5ff71b22f6253a6dd9afc1c34778dec3
Size/MD5 checksum: 893 0dc1f183dd20741e5b4e26a7f8e1c652

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1328144 c1c5f0ceb391893a94e61c074b677ee9

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checks...

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