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Debian 3.0 Woody DSA 713-1 Critical: Junkbuster Remote Risk

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2005
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Multiple vulnerabilities in junkbuster addressed in Debian Security Bulletin, mitigating severe remote exploitation threats.
Updated package.

Summary


James Ranson discovered that an attacker can modify the referrer
setting with a carefully crafted URL by accidently overwriting a
global variable.

CAN-2005-1109

Tavis Ormandy from the Gentoo Security Team discovered several
heap corruptions due to inconsistent use of an internal function
that can crash the daemon or possibly lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.2-0.2woody1.

The unstable distribution (sid) doesn't contain the junkbuster package
anymore.

We recommend that you upgrade your junkbuster 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 ...

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