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Debian 3.0: DSA-859-1 High Severity: XLI Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2005
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Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.17.0-18sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your xli 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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 620 0276fa4de8addea1ba22891082860983
Size/MD5 checksum: 17956 71eaa54284c5a94cd1da8eeb84640158
Size/MD5 checksum: 200070 504f916c9a7d062c8f856f1625634ba8

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 173180 ba2b9b41fa8...

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