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Debian 4.0 DSA-1585-1 Critical: Speex Integer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2008
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1585-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp May 21, 2008 http://w
It was discovered that speex, The Speex codec command line tools, did not correctly did not correctly deal with negative offsets in a particular header field

Summary


We recommend that you upgrade your speex 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 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 740110 1bd6cdf3a0ebabf818cd72a3401e2610
Size/MD5 checksum: 16595 589686ba95740aa4a3e5549f985b2a1e
Size/MD5 checksum: 878 ab141143903f5ff0b32e42c413ba3bd5

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1765026 9bda06707fdacf89ce47e3b16184da7e

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 87436 c3c2045fb8d07accaf2b04199fc5e07d
Size/MD5 checksum: 127628 ae0d23d6542f4e...

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