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Debian: DSA-801-1 Urgent: libxml2 Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey September 2, 2005
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Critical vulnerability addressed in Debian's pcre3 package. Immediate upgrade advised to maintain security standards.
Updated package.

Summary


For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4-1.1woody1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.5-1.2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libpcre3 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: 546 f20fefc57bb56bfa6cf32d9c18a7add4
Size/MD5 checksum: 49801 b69439f16a83c75f4afdad1bc87e0983
Size/MD5 checksum: 296708 ...

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