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Debian 2.1 Security Advisory: Fix for AMD Remote Exploit Issue

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Calendar Grey December 13, 1999
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The version of amd that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is vulnerable to a remote exploit

Summary


The version of amd that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is
vulnerable to a remote exploit. This was fixed in version 23.0slink1.
However that fix contained an error which has been fixed in version
upl102-23.slink2.

Here is the problem description from the previous fix:
Passing a big directory name to amd its logging code would overflow a
buffer which could be exploited. This has been fixed in version
23.0slink1.

We recommand that you upgrade your amd package immediately.

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

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink

This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

Source archives:

l102-23.slink2.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 30a6710a9e3fb6dcf46ec7491d157807
l102
-23.slink2.dsc
MD5 checksum: 290f37dc51c2ed86400176fa9bef15ea
l102.orig.tar.
gz
MD5 checksum: 76c61a893523001961437475ee2f79c5

Intel ia32 architec...

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