Debian: DSA 742-1 High Risk: zlib Memory Leak Vulnerability
debian
July 7, 2005
Chris Evans discovered that a specially crafted archive can trigger an
infinete loop in bzip2, a high-quality block-sorting file compressor.
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.2-7.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.2-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your bzip2 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: 591 2bbebaa9594819a21b293cd679e88f9e
Size/MD5 checksum: 11423 d413545f13911158a7f382a1dc68008b
Size/MD5 checksum: 665198 ee76864958d568677f03db8afad92beb
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 233882 d3c37c8...
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