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Debian 3.1: Notification DSA-763-1 About zlib Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2005
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Uncover the solution for buffer overrun vulnerabilities in Debian's zlib software, enhancing overall security and reliability.
Flaw in the way zlib, a library used for file compression and decompression, handles invalid input

Summary


For the current stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.2.2-4.sarge.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your zlib 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 3.1 (stable)
- ------------------- Stable was released for alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 430700 d43dabe3d374e299f2631c5fc5ce31f5
Size/MD5 checksum: 807 e3fa0febf789e5c758d43476199...

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