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Debian 3.1: 1198-1 Critical: Python2.3 Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2006
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Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.5-16.

We recommend that you upgrade your Python 2.3 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: 1146 c38d235942cfb8afc2a134095983fcc3
Size/MD5 checksum: 2352797 40d9ed18456b48d968a245de572090f6
Size/MD5 checksum: 8512566 9c35e5ca3c487e1c1f70f2fb1ccbfffe

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 235662 ad56ea2b6e7020e58cca9d3a8119ad94
Size/MD5 checksum: 28606...

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