Debian 4.0: DSA-1634-2 Moderate: WordNet Code Execution Issue
debian
September 20, 2008
A regression was discovered in the original patch addressing this issue
for WordNet, which this update fixes
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:2.1-4+etch2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:3.0-13.
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 79778d56b18a02598ee5b6fd96ab08a3
Size/MD5 checksum: 23138 e0c766b20c9b7a0af75d95ba45b450a1
Size/MD5 checksum: 6379385 95a6e8144254a92a5ea0e97771ef9d07
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 870...
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