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Debian 2.1: 23.0slink1 Critical: AMD Remote Exploit Fixed

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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. 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:

pl102-23.0slink1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 1182f8bd9ad26d171ff1295899a1460b

2-23.0slink1.dsc
MD5 checksum: b5b842c6fa9068d5dfca426220c995f1
2.orig.tar.
gz
MD5 checksum: 76c61a893523001961437475ee2f79c5

Alpha architecture:

alpha/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: ce3eb36f6ace8f0cd4530450d2286fce

Intel ia32 architecture:

i386/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 6ef7...

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