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Debian 3.1: DSA 1074-1 Critical: mpg123 Buffer Overflow Advisory

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2006
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Debian security notice DSA 1075-1 highlights a severe buffer overflow vulnerability in curl. Users are urged to apply updates immediately.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.59r-22.

We recommend that you upgrade your mpg123 packages.


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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 751 ba026638de21be9fa5061056bd53a43d
Size/MD5 checksum: 41527 3119adeed1228f6bd10c3f7100a308e0
Size/MD5 checksum: 159028 95df59ad1651dd2346d49fafc83747e7

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 124974 b9ea8480d28e09e27673072ade3021e3
Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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