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Debian DSA 632-1 Low: Linpopup Arbitrary Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2005
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Enhance linpopup to address the buffer overflow vulnerabilities highlighted in Debian Security Notice DSA 632-1. Maintain security!
Stephen Dranger discovered a buffer overflow in linpopup, an X11 port of winpopup, running over Samba, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when displaying a maliciou...
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.0-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your linpopup 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: 577 b5272d2427beb92f9572337c3907f7bf
Size/MD5 checksum: 14771 346c0d8fc894eb9660cbc945f53d7a48
Size/MD5 checksum: 145628 26503ac44971e334cbbb0a79dd796d93

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 84980 bd4cc7b95e42ae85891826fdd9345e5d

ARM ...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: linpopup
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1282

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