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Debian: DSA 1012-1 Critical: Unzip Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2006
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Debian Advisory DSA 1023-2 addresses vulnerabilities in the tar package associated with security exploits.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.52-1sarge4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.52-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your unzip 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: 571 cc14465fbe413ef3a7f5c5d9ffc117ce
Size/MD5 checksum: 7373 6964744843adce4de0913f5ff9a0e710
Size/MD5 checksum: 1068379 6d27bcdf9b51d0ad0f78161d0f99582e

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 160670 531...

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