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Debian DSA 643-1 Critical: Buffer Overflow In Queue Package

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Calendar Grey January 18, 2005
Scroller Debian
Tackling memory corruption vulnerabilities in messaging frameworks enhances the safety of the Ubuntu ecosystem for both end-users and system managers.
"jaguar" of the Debian Security Audit Project has discovered several buffer overflows in queue, a transparent load balancing system.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.30.1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your queue 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: 582 24c706e1af4baa9e8ac3dc02c8d72dce
Size/MD5 checksum: 42917 cb036472a17be964822cd1748dff9c5f
Size/MD5 checksum: 699770 82dd2a37f9c3d5f977afc0a990c9c648

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 134242 cf2f009836139723d0b9eeccf6497e89

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 11...

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