Debian: New hf packages fix execution of arbitrary code
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8-8.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hf 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 4.0 alias etch
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 48134 aedcfbf8d991ebee97c1b1a57f677c32
Size/MD5 checksum: 776437 78d855ea6fccdd5fd1d1ee19d2fd5ea1
Size/MD5 checksum: 665 c225ea8d68cac81421a85f960c26942c
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 734206 5bd691c27b46f64ce98c68a48e0798ab
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
Size/MD5 checksum: 690954 c966ca05f946b97569b38c9dccc7a80f
arm architecture (ARM)
Size/MD5 checksum: 664202 aad2e7d38d7b6724f2e842e8048bf840
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 731050 412d07e8cf470eba24b4a63994d3bb76
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
Size/MD5 checksum: 656534 10eaf8da9cd5deaa7fc0cc655df9e28c
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
Size/MD5 checksum: 898636 2caa75fb4af2f56bd5ccfbf5b0387368
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 705444 f41f671e6fc8a5980566c261dc3a6ee9
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 698476 6e9465ba686b513e22a023f31d4f8980
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 689566 3a6b281bb7a0fc7ae0d9bdba1e40dff6
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
Size/MD5 checksum: 661218 315d7ac125355a89b4a6e253a6fb0172
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 656572 86bb446f37a7801a26859d3db1a177c5
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org