Debian DSA-1244-1: xine-lib Buffer Overflow Risk and Update
debian
December 28, 2006
It was discovered that the Xine multimedia library performs insufficient
sanitising of Real streams, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary
code through a buffer overflow...
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Summary
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.2+dfsg-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your xine-lib 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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 1059 cd19dea4bbccc12c789884056d1468fb
Size/MD5 checksum: 4435 b8459683695418e142fd4df413417fae
Size/MD5 checksum: 7774954 9be804b337c6c3a2e202c5a7237cb0f8
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 chec...
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