Debian 3.0: DSA 641-1 Critical: Playmidi Buffer Overflow Local Exploit
debian
January 17, 2005
Erik Sjölund discovered that playmidi, a MIDI player, contains a
setuid root program with a buffer overflow that can be exploited by a
local attacker.
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4debian-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your playmidi 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
Size/MD5 checksum: 660 27266405df049e3ad78449aa26359180
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Size/MD5 checksum: 146742 04efb0826324bce1d93228c77d52f911
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 151852 60b96643f5810f39bf0f7c8344bad727
ARM architecture:
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