Debian 3.0: DSA 673-1 Critical: Arbitrary Code Execution Risk
debian
February 10, 2005
Max Vozeler discovered an integer overflow in a helper application
inside of Evolution, a free grouware suite
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.3-1.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your evolution 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: 990 135eae823f6a0159a5f7ec6bc72c72b0
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Alpha architecture:
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