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Debian 7 Wheezy DLA-955-1 Critical: Rzip Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2017
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Enhance your rzip installations on Debian Wheezy to mitigate a severe buffer overflow vulnerability.
Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo discovered a heap buffer overflow write in the rzip program when uncompressing maliciously crafted files
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Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
2.1-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rzip packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


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Package: rzip
Version: 2.1-1+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-8364
Debian Bug: 861614

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