Debian: DSA-1634-1 Critical: WordNet Arbitrary Code Execution
debian
September 1, 2008
Rob Holland discovered several programming errors in WordNet, an
electronic lexical database of the English language
Topics Covered
Summary
For the testing distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:3.0-11+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your wordnet 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
Size/MD5 checksum: 772 24980d288101a1c11e60e38fe5ea945a
Size/MD5 checksum: 22912 bb970bd2ccd457c6310ba0c75e5ed2be
Size/MD5 checksum: 6379385 95a6e8144254a92a5ea0e97771ef9d07
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 2242538 dc75e162b...
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