Debian: DSA-653-1 Critical: Ethereal Buffer Overflow Remote Threat
debian
January 21, 2005
A buffer overflow has been detected in the X11 dissector of ethereal,
a commonly used network traffic analyser
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.10.9-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal 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
Size/MD5 checksum: 681 8e8bbe73bf65d45446fb7c03dddb41a1
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Size/MD5 checksum: 3278908 42e999daa659820ee93aaaa39ea1e9ea
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1941102 aab1360769a64476ce4113068230c8ad
Size/MD5 checksum: 334424 c3647ca04af3f48b4...
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