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Debian: DSA 663-1 Critical: Prozilla Code Exec Threat Details

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Calendar Grey February 1, 2005
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 663-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 1st, 2005
Several buffer overflows have been discovered in prozilla, a multi-threaded download accelerator which could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vi...
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.7.3-1

We recommend that you upgrade your prozilla 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: 612 dfa567a4182aa527e5d463f2f5f3c5b6
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Alpha architecture:

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ARM architecture:

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