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Debian Advisory: Epic4 DoS Vulnerability in Versions Pre1.034 to Pre2.004

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory
We have received a report from the author of epic4 covering a denial of service vulnerability

Summary

We have received a report from the author of epic4 covering a denial
of service vulnerability. All versions of epic4 between version
pre1.034 (including) and version pre2.004-19990718 (excluding) are
vulnerable. They contain code which makes epic4 walk off of a string,
causing the client to crash and possibly display arbitrary characterson the terminal.


We recommend you upgrade your epic4 packages 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
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This version of Debian was released only for the Intel, the
Motorola 68xxx, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

Source archives:


MD5 checksum: 587def2142692d6c813c9aef8b250d0e

MD5 checksum: e90e72db5f162d95bfe0318965fe743a

MD5 checksum: 76ceeb97abf12e80df395c0ffb917eb3

Alpha architecture:


MD5 checksum: 836e1f26eda5e01e9eee981cb42f8d92

MD5 checksum: 83e9056fdddb471b3c...

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