Debian: 'man-db' vulnerability
Summary
The previous man-db update (DSA-364-1) introduced an error which
resulted in a segmentation fault in the "mandb" command, which runs
part of the daily cron job. This error was caused by allocating a
memory region which was one byte too small to hold the data written
into it.
For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been
fixed in version 2.3.20-18.woody.3.
The unstable distribution (sid) was not affected by this problem.
We recommend that you update your man-db package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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
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Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 632 227678648c57982f1f94c68d87e981d5
Size/MD5 checksum: 106656 c97fb4fd035abc8d1b8424473491b898
Size/MD5 checksum: 516391 5021f8a23cba9b14df39aa06407baefb
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 543442 ad21bfda434e3a56db351b28811a4519
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 478496 33f5f7ec1baf4faae4fea10e95d0ae93
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 472870 1cd24fded9ab886c695b4edadebf5246
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 601620 48dc7ae70e91dd0c0f19e22a525150c2
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 521106 0359e7f0549e37fd7e214d0f29e7924b
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 467820 78e883311d0e79c6081fce9e735764f7
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 516078 7f114851118f566c7804d6fcc083b84b
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 517222 5006637a73f6f128f9499d1d15db482e
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 494048 aefd0057ae510a5224cf5832aade1349
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 479140 a2535ea11fc3db9db6e8e563448f56d8
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 479340 69bf25dd1287d7902e819dfcf7671669
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.