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Debian: DSA 1076-1 Moderate: Fix for Lynx Remote DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2006
Scroller Debian
Initiate an upgrade of lynx packages on the Debian system to resolve a remote code execution vulnerability that leads to potential denial of service issues.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.5-2sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.5-2sarge2.

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 at the end of this advisory:

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: 581 a9853909c61c5ef2fcc8868599f9b875
Size/MD5 checksum: 16334 74bce8912c28f979c33055a012cf29d6
Size/MD5 checksum: 2557510 053a10f76b871e3944c11c7776da7f7a

Alpha architecture:

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