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Debian: DSA 863-1 Critical: xine-lib Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2005
Scroller Debian
Addresses potential vulnerabilities in xine-lib leading to arbitrary code execution. Key updates regarding Debian security releases.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxine0 and libxine1 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: 760 84aebc3ee4340cb3fa349e42d3aea4cd
Size/MD5 checksum: 1597 46ad3714f12ecf6f7d7b2b636d4bf235
Size/MD5 checksum: 1766178 d8fc9b30e15b50af8ab7552bbda7aeda

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 260872...

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