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Debian 3.0 DSA 876-1 Critical: Lynx-SSL Code Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2005
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Critical buffer overflow issue in lynx-ssl patched. Users advised to update Debian installations for enhanced security measures.
Updated package.

Summary


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

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

We recommend that you upgrade your lynx-ssl 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: 609 6256bc48e63d9120301c6bdae3316675
Size/MD5 checksum: 87627 69a835be9e783a6788fd3122ec4c51d4
Size/MD5 checksum: 2557510 053a10f76b871e3944c11c7776da7f7a

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1617392 d07cb...

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