Debian 3.0 DSA 717-1 Critical: Lsh-Utils Buffer Overflow Risk

Bennett Todd discovered a heap buffer overflow in lshd which could
lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CAN-2005-0814

Niels Möller discovered a denial of service condition in lshd.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.5-2woody3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.1-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your lsh-server 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

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