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Debian: DSA 1210-1 Severe: Screen Package Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1202-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 31st,
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.3-0.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your screen 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: 636 e49dbc2f884aef5f5be87ee4e81c3d83
Size/MD5 checksum: 33782 659bf15bbbb31817ebad9372c8827618
Size/MD5 checksum: 840519 ed68ea9b43d9fba0972cb017a24940a1

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 629958 ed0ff830958e515c4cfe7578c3cbd43b

AMD64 architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 5...

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