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Debian: DSA 1038-1 Critical: Remote Code Execution in Xzgv Software

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2006
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Debian has released updates for the xzgv software to address vulnerabilities that could allow arbitrary code execution stemming from flaws in how JPEG images were processed.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8-3sarge1.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your xzgv 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: 581 1a95ff78280e98e448b19807e6dacd14
Size/MD5 checksum: 7188 3af533cd6791a61c35cac448cdf7bd86
Size/MD5 checksum: 296814 9a376cc01cf486a2a8901fbc8b040d29

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 199802 8d2c31ecea7c0821a46...

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