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Debian Woody: DSA 693-1 Moderate: Luxman Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 14, 2005
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To fix a critical buffer overflow in the luxman package on Debian, follow these steps for an update and mitigate local root exploit risks effectively
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.41-20.

We recommend that you upgrade your luxman 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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 570 a55086f936bbcfe22598ac0aeb94f8da
Size/MD5 checksum: 7105 8719173e012bab5680d138d25e30b619
Size/MD5 checksum: 268279 aa389327578e2d65f3f5035193e407cb

Intel IA-32 architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 290762 c4123222e992a37dcf609768a20e7e8f


These files will probably be moved into the stab...

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