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Debian: DSA 1214-2 Urgent: gv Buffer Overflow Security Risk Alert

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Calendar Grey December 27, 2006
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Fortify your Ubuntu environment with the latest gv packages mitigating buffer overflow and unauthorized code execution threats.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.6.1-10sarge2.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 3.6.2-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.6.2-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gv 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 562 2870520620770dc432dbdaa1e7e142d0
Size/MD5 checksum: 30712 3722a960c3256870ca1fa1ccfd9233d0
Size/MD5 checksum: 453921 ace08...

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