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Debian 2.4 High Severity: Python Buffer Overflow Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2006
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Debian issued an update addressing a buffer overflow flaw in Python 2.4 upon discovering a possible security breach that could lead to unauthorized code execution.
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your Python 2.4 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: 1094 c32c8fdbdc8579afa65a35811fd0f447
Size/MD5 checksum: 2588405 b06709694f4fd3b04ddd0316403f3528
Size/MD5 checksum: 9205762 0475655d5c6f7919fc977c42c1103af8

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 239606 7bfff5388898e8fa7696f34e59035779
Size/MD5 checksum: 321700...

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