Debian: DSA 611-1 Moderate: Buffer Overflow in Htget Remote Access

debian

December 20, 2004

"infamous41md" discovered a buffer overflow in htget, a file grabber that will get files from HTTP servers

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow code execution debian remote access

Summary

This package is not present in the testing and unstable distributions.

We recommend that you upgrade your htget 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:

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Alpha architecture:

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ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 14084 3ce8b4030ae5fe4f6f8906af364f63e1

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