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Debian DSA-1278-1 Critical: Man-db Local Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2007
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1278-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Noah Meyerhans April 06, 2007 Pa
A buffer overflow has been dicovered in the man command that could allow an attacker to execute code as the man user by providing specially crafted arguments to the -H flag
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Summary


For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) and the unstable
distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your man-db 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 3.1 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 730134 15855f899a76aa302c83ffec81526ab4
Size/MD5 checksum: 673 add0d09882262adb0cbbde6845af0fbb
Size/MD5 checksum: 104832 c5befcaee1865b...

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