Debian 3.0: DSA 697-1 Critical: Netkit-Telnet Buffer Overflow Threat

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

We recommend that you upgrade your telnet 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: 602 2fe6640e0719f7aa44a7815a89a12a41
Size/MD5 checksum: 22327 943fcd9a5048df83ce6d4f00c5b64853
Size/MD5 checksum: 133749 d6beabaaf53fe6e382c42ce3faa05a36

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 84292 0b84a10dfc8714c16dbbb022f3344616
Size/MD5 checksum: 45876 7a1893a937dd23489c45cc31d0e1605b

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