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Debian 3.1 DSA 878-1 Critical: Netpbm Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2005
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 10.0-8sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 10.0-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your netpbm-free 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 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 749 826066a252124fc16f23cd484665a46f
Size/MD5 checksum: 44864 f797c3b500fc5255c3624973bce9b1c1
Size/MD5 checksum: 1926538 985e9f6d531ac0b2004f5cbebdeea87d

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 8...

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