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Debian 4.0 DSA-1328 Critical: Unicon-Imc2 Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2007
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The Unicon-imc2 package on Debian exhibits a buffer overflow vulnerability linked to improper handling of environmental variables. It is advised to perform an upgrade.
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that unicon-imc2, a Chinese input method library, makes unsafe use of an environmental variable, which may be exploit...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.4-11etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed shortly.

We recommend that you upgrade your unicon-imc2 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

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 14966 c3a081d69f9f81055de331690bf85e70
Size/MD5 checksum: 5704272 dfb8650debe038f85270b4ad60ad313b
Size/MD5 checksum: 603 711b8ba2894e03f257f7d6a74f526563

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 43766...

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