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Debian 3.1 DSA 1129-1 Critical: Osiris Format String Attack

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2006
Scroller Debian
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 tackles remote exploitation vulnerabilities in the zeus software affecting system integrity. Update immediately.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.2.0-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your osiris 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: 601 f8e62dca889eac05f3c2f1cf6541bea2
Size/MD5 checksum: 63328 905cddf6a6635ed215fff6f6055ad0a1
Size/MD5 checksum: 1882069 c23180e5e44aa4303531e0b9d9308c80

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 522620 c0253943d34023c1dc631c537a1ca06d
Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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