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Ubuntu: DSA 874-1 Severe Panther Heap Overflow Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 874-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 27th, 2005
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.5-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your lynx 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: 579 117f4e3d95a601741dc672012719042c
Size/MD5 checksum: 14448 5e5d819520415baa0d91f75f0ee4f0af
Size/MD5 checksum: 2557510 053a10f76b871e3944c11c7776da7f7a

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1610266 c887b1d0598b99fe1...

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