Debian: DSA 616-1 Critical Format String Issue in Telnetd-SSL
debian
December 23, 2004
Joel Eriksson discovered a format string vulnerability in telnetd-ssl which may be able to lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the victims machine.
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.17.24+0.1-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your immediately 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
-------------------------------- Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 669 1911a91198987efcbfeaf54ba94994e2
Size/MD5 checksum: 8721 901621f6abc0c1c6dc0713570994acf7
Size/MD5 checksum: 167658 faf2d112bc4d44f522bad3bc73da8d6d
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 101104 b3e71d1b626e6f618bba5e337c5e0221
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: netkit-telnet-ssl
CVE ID: CAN-2004-0998
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