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Debian: DSA 859-1 Critical xloadimage Buffer Overflow Update

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2005
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Severe memory corruption flaw detected in xloadimage for Debian resolved through timely package revision.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1-14.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1-15.

We recommend that you upgrade your xloadimage 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: 608 2b194d25f2cd86d8c1b1f2f5a467bcc9
Size/MD5 checksum: 50186 53a9172758b709cf3f0e99936d47c4a4
Size/MD5 checksum: 596021 7331850fc04056ab8ae6b5725d1fb3d2

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 139...

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