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Debian: DSA-657-1 Critical: Xine-lib Buffer Overflow Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 657-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 25th, 2005
A heap overflow has been discovered in the DVD subpicture decoder of xine-lib

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1-rc6a-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxine packages.


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: 760 fdead2b906645e98cd98482da245f9fe
Size/MD5 checksum: 1432 d1228b2ea29024dc31d7e73716e430b8
Size/MD5 checksum: 1766178 d8fc9b30e15b50af8ab7552bbda7aeda

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 260790 35b1fcb3d630159bffba57cd03ee7198
Size/MD5 checksum: 815898 5b969f8b91cd217a6...

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