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Debian: DSA 723-1 Critical: XFree86 Buffer Overflow Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2005
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN 4111-2 resolves critical flaw in OpenSSH; recommended action for all administrators.
Updated Package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed in
version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13, which is currently in preparation.

We recommend that you upgrade your xfree86 and associated packages.


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: 1512 008341b53216f4243930c7ab9eefee78
Size/MD5 checksum: 1620968 30487abd663a975a939c91657964104d
Size/MD5 checksum: 54433247 ea7a32e6a81a850e9f19428f3104c300

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 60812 08a53813d34d9a2...

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