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Debian 3.0/3.1: DSA 855-1 Critical: Weex Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 855-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 10th, 2005
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.1-6sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.1-6sarge1.

We recommend that you upgrade your weex 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: 574 112bdc5f46adf480a15169b72fc91122
Size/MD5 checksum: 10273 bed533f27980324db7490483c9ae85b7
Size/MD5 checksum: 205502 909518d932a733828676d75a9bcadf78

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 98...

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