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Debian Woody: DSA 624-1 Critical: Zip Buffer Overflow Execution

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2005
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A critical flaw in the zip utility could lead to unauthorized code execution through manipulated paths. Ensure you update immediately to protect your system.
A buffer overflow has been discovered in zip, the archiver for .zip files

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.30-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your zip 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: 563 6591a439c2d018f0ac27956eb798a235
Size/MD5 checksum: 17849 800ce2d42e7b980b3678e07af5370c18
Size/MD5 checksum: 728636 9426b2042139de1f112f271ebdcb0ff0

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 126748 7cf6bdf363740b74f1870045974a56e5

ARM archit...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: zip
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1010

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