Debian 4.0 Etch: DSA-1587-1 Critical Mtr Buffer Overflow Risk
debian
May 26, 2008
Adam Zabrocki discovered that under certain circumstances mtr, a full
screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool, could be tricked into executing
arbitrary code via overly long reve...
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.73-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mtr 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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 49648 1f32f54087c5cab59d13418277c33959
Size/MD5 checksum: 594 4dae747ffc1de0170d2578b1b09261ed
Size/MD5 checksum: 205442 8c1c9f5db2c599eea3b12bfed8b80618
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 42128 48a8e95d395b07e57852b0005e5225ff
Size/MD5 checksum: 57194 bd922b8c1a5891f71abbb4777faf4e63
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