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Debian: DSA-1005-1 Moderate: Xine-Lib Buffer Overflow Issue Resolved

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2006
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Debian DSA 1006-1 released for vlc addressing security vulnerabilities and urging users to upgrade.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-1.5.

We recommend that you upgrade your xine-lib 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1061 158c6502017809a4541cd265db09621c
Size/MD5 checksum: 2986 5fd44fe96e5108cf679ef44f192613c4
Size/MD5 checksum: 7774954 9be804b337c6c3a2e202c5a7237cb0f8

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 107...

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