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Debian: DSA-1283-1 Critical: Nginx Segmentation Fault Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 22, 2007
Scroller Debian
Enhance your Wireshark installation to fix the stack-based buffer overflow that could lead to a denial of service in Ubuntu Linux.
Moritz Jodeit discovered an off-by-one buffer overflow in tcpdump, a powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition, which allows denial of service.
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Summary


For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed
in version 3.9.5-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.9.5-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tcpdump 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: 666 90787f78143213411a3d82cebfbca271
Size/MD5 checksum: 11825 e7127eec3ec3a93e26bdb26b6665be85
Size/MD5 checksum: 567116 30645001f4b97019677cad88d3811904

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 3006...

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