Ubuntu 4.0 DSA 201-2 Severe: JSON Parsing Vulnerability Exploit

Morgan alias SM6TKY discovered and fixed several security related
problems in LinuxNode, an Amateur Packet Radio Node program. The
buffer overflow he discovered can be used to gain unauthorised root
access and can be remotely triggered.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.3.0a-2woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.3.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your node packages immediately.


Upgrade Instructions
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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
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