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Debian 2.2 DSA-018-1 Critical: Tinyproxy Remote Exploit Advisory

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2001
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Urgent: Upgrade the tinyproxy module due to a buffer overflow security flaw that poses a risk for remote exploitation on Debian systems.
PkC have found a heap overflow in tinyproxy that could be remotelyexploited

Summary

PkC have found a heap overflow in tinyproxy that could be remotely
exploited. An attacker could gain a shell (user nobody) remotely.

We recommend you upgrade your tinyproxy package immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
architectures.


Source archives:


MD5 checksum: 747119973db206dfa681357262b92e05

MD5 checksum: b7566742b8d8f4ff165463b6ab7d9855

MD5 checksum: b81229f1cb0212cb12e3bfdbaccdb820

Intel ia32 architecture:


MD5 checksum: e542b2d9f936912d2b5d39eb2adbf39d

Motorola 680x0 architecture:


MD5 checksum: e73a5a6cd23ef8a9d6e35ada4b809515

Sun Sparc architecture:


MD5 checksum: 98352a16b4dae2724f89e689c4d25d0e

Alpha architecture:


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Package: tinyproxy

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