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Debian 3.0: DSA 726-1 Moderate: Oops Format String Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2005
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Investigate the Debian Security Notice addressing remediation of format string vulnerabilities in the Oops software, aiming to bolster system security measures.
Updated package.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your oops 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: 650 5c25c8feafc8859988e9c58f16fefb4e
Size/MD5 checksum: 447210 1d36c62ee9fb194ec40541426941d7a6

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 338016 93b334e738d1eeec4833470bec6c1693

ARM architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 299218 dea33792da84a6c73c9cb70e383912db

Intel IA-32 architecture:

Size/MD5 chec...

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