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Debian: DSA 1149-1 Critical: Ncompress Buffer Underflow Risk

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1149-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 10th, 2006
Tavis Ormandy from the Google Security Team discovered a missing boundary check in ncompress, the original Lempel-Ziv compress and uncompress programs, which allows a specially cra...
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.2.4-15sarge2.

We recommend that you upgrade your ncompress 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 591 8fa14e666180e8a37491dcd33114dbff
Size/MD5 checksum: 8124 1b7aa0d3079f334202df5d1c77e0f9bf
Size/MD5 checksum: 31765 7ef0d51aee53b6cd5c6aefe637491281

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 24370 72b955790079338f98afd62c49644897

AMD64 architecture:

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