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Debian: DSA 1061-1 Critical Update for Popfile Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1061-2 deals with vulnerabilities in popfile. Important updates can be accessed immediately.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.22.2-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.22.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your popfile 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 589 3e810260fb4c4527a1b2b4ed2cb60550
Size/MD5 checksum: 13892 412e873bf3ed0031ac6f0d728f428188
Size/MD5 checksum: 1494830 05538821f28c3f57d514460effc034ef

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5...

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