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Debian: DSA 817-1 Critical: Python Arbitrary Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2005
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A recent update for Ubuntu packages fixes critical buffer overflow issues that could allow remote code execution. Ensure you upgrade promptly!
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.3dfsg-2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.3dfsg-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your python2.2 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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 1150 0bcb5a04905bfafb0fe5ed1373914d54
Size/MD5 checksum: 95524 da620a7770bef5dfb59d25eddf272743
Size/MD5 checksum: 6536167 88aa07574673ccfaf35904253c78fc7d

Architecture independent components:

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