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Debian: DSA 1026-1 Critical: sash Buffer Overflow Threat Resolved

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1027-1 addresses critical vulnerabilities in the libc6 library impacting various platforms.
Updated package.

Summary


The old stable distribution (woody) isn't affected by these problems.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.7-5sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.7-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your sash 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: 626 76b6e1da964b13f658be8d47cb86f549
Size/MD5 checksum: 12884 31311a323d287e90fc009a2df0fd4cfa
Size/MD5 checksum: 50337 ee7c7ed5aad76599974d016a6...

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