Debian 4.0 DSA-1683-1 Critical: Streamripper Buffer Overflow
debian
December 8, 2008
Multiple buffer overflows involving HTTP header and playlist parsing
have been discovered in streamripper (CVE-2007-4337, CVE-2008-4829).
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) and the testing distribution
(lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.63.5-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your streamripper 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: 294218 8761dda030f92cbdfa38e73a981cc6bc
Size/MD5 checksum: 5040 0a4fe994a155d07163b3455df5c2668b
Size/MD5 checksum: 964 67ddf22de3c0642e41245e07e534c992
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 84142 9450efa0b7fcfce8e976a0a1acb9e837
amd64 architecture...
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