Debian: DSA 959-1 Critical: Unalz Arbitrary Code Execution Issue
debian
January 30, 2006
Ulf H�rnhammer from the Debian Audit Project discovered that unalz, a
decompressor for ALZ archives, performs insufficient bounds checking
when parsing file names
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.30.1
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your unalz 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: 505 6946e7c6ae2e663674cb968a17517d6b
Size/MD5 checksum: 108993 9b45066980a87f11db43f24b0756be33
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 54350 5cf460c260a651fa6c48a39a350fea19
AMD64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 47924 ...
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