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Debian: DSA 678-2 Urgent Patch for Efficacy of Gzip Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 11, 2005
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Severe buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the xpcd package for Debian, potentially granting root privileges. Immediate upgrade advised.
Updated package.

Summary


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

We recommend that you upgrade your xpcd-svga package immediately.


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: 706 b1e7b8aeafd929cd31f9403b6534c86b
Size/MD5 checksum: 14837 e67ca4ae6f6c0cc09033e195ad188825
Size/MD5 checksum: 103104 59bf5b8d0466ecb3c58ed1fffcdf499e

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 81170 17302a158ec404cf6b7961b8434cec33
Size/MD5 checksum: 13494 a0a1cec324c9c5fb202e...

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