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Updated package.. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 678-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 11th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : netkit-rwho Vulnerability : missing input validation Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-1180 "Vlad902" discovered a vulnerability in the rwhod program that can be used to crash the listening process. The broadcasting one is unaffected. This vulnerability only affects little endian architectures (i.e. on Debian: alpha, arm, alpha, ia64, i386, mipsel and s390). For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-4woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-8. We recommend that you upgrade your rwhod 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 573 232cc3d400360adf91f477ae6e4df1db Size/MD5 checksum: 10970 67909ae8e428409b9d66e59d053df76d Size/MD5 checksum: 20610 0f71620d45d472f89134ba0d74242e75 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 15600 9209b79116d4da8e61c042daa60d8571 Size/MD5 checksum: 19020 20244ee92243cbf7a73fbf63ef4669df ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13096 eced290e15edb12ddec5c0f4bc2f873c Size/MD5 checksum: 17464 98c7f887ab745f562d4dcb12bf42bbbf Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 12692 04e8597017f17b8357aabfd12171ebfe Size/MD5 checksum: 17364 d510fe20152828ede22d85c9e8b7eeb8 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 15946 3e478d1bb74472c6cd967e7890e5d624 Size/MD5 checksum: 20658 4f3f5a38d76c868ea028e20df6a58abf HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13906 5890c7723b8aad599e8605e122934a93 Size/MD5 checksum: 18066 4c9fc358830c8ad2885779f02c246b66 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 12654 f600ddc3d01ee478115438c751c0836f Size/MD5 checksum: 17100 d47344fcf36586bf35ba8552b924e7e9 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13218 05ce9334de62e64a6031d0a397b52b8e Size/MD5 checksum: 17120 5c7e1752201621b82154d8107e466fe0 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13266 58bdafa0f3727901bea58b5337078dc6 Size/MD5 checksum: 17446 d2a3eb4211c8b7beaa502a489a08037c PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13030 e472eb81db77c5e50b5756ce58c92795 Size/MD5 checksum: 17122 fc8bb02bcc162a54076405e1cbe7b0d0 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13414 9f2dea228f0c0ed3452d26e11366a47f Size/MD5 checksum: 17842 00320623fa238648f89a6fde1a03eefc Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 16062 d8b71eb71a33f4b45132a91731ab1d6e Size/MD5 checksum: 19818 9b1462f4fbf007255f380ce632bf868c These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Debian addresses a denial of service flaw in netkit-rwho with patch updates. Key upgrade information contained within.. Debian Security, Netkit-Rwho Update, Denial Of Service. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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