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Debian 3.1: DSA 816-1 Critical: Update Fixes XFree86 Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2005
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Summary


For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1.0-16woody7.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 of X.Org.

We recommend that you upgrade your xfree86 and xorg 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: 1504 5190a28ea05beea9b018dbbb3e6e38f0
Size/MD5 checksum: 1621088 e0e1175a77bcb0f4fb2ef39d37690dd9
...

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