Debian GNU/Linux 2.2: Remote Exploit In X-Chat URL Handling Advisory
debian
August 30, 2000
The version of X-Chat that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has a vulnerability in the URL handling code.
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Summary
This has been fixed in version 1.4.3-0.1, and we recommend you
upgrade your xchat package(s) immediately.
Update: the powerpc packages mentioned in the first release of this
advisory were linked with a version of libgtk that is not available
in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. They have been recompiled with the correct
version and reuploaded.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
architectures.
Source archives:
MD5 checksum: 5cbdb48ac125bbbfb5be77dc4bfc8807
MD5 checksum: 5270a711fea64ba2aa8c69aecd58b337
MD5 checksum: 2c7c49888490bb3725b693c804ee28a1
Architecture indendent archives:
MD5 checksum: f4bee55efca7a60383db25b161752e25
Alpha architecture:
MD5 checksum: 3f71beeecce1500a18d642d03e37515e
MD5 checksum: 921b36d41254be307ad60c1bf00648c3
MD5 checksum: 7523c9d010fa28a9f615bdde8c7b91d3
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