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Debian 3.0: DSA 729-1 Critical: PHP4 Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2005
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Closure of service vulnerabilities addressed with recent PHP4 updates in Debian; users advised to upgrade for enhanced protection.
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Summary


For the testing distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.3.10-10.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.3.10-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your php4 packages.


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: 1492 091ac6dee884b6a1075ba98f79ff27f4
Size/MD5 checksum: 102098 a1e8c7c5d254573c9e7a52b9d71167c9
Size/MD5 checksum: 3346579 37e67552bec20e6f02d52e14a11aa269

Architecture independent components:

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