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Debian 4.0/4.1: DSA 928-3 Major: Tkdiff Security Risk Exposed

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Calendar Grey December 29, 2005
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The Debian security announcement DSA-928-3 addresses vulnerabilities related to improper handling of user input in vim, impacting various versions.
Updated package.

Summary


For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.08-3woody1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.2-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.2-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your tkdiff 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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 611 b3a3bab8a8e76710bd27bd971a134aba
Size/MD5 checksum: 3981 004d41ec8581fe3f2d906e8a4d2d7d57
Size/MD5 checksum: 63171 1...

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