Debian: DSA-1624-1 Critical: Libxslt Buffer Overflow Execution Risk
debian
July 31, 2008
Chris Evans discovered that a buffer overflow in the RC4 functions of
libexslt may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your libxslt 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 GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
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alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
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