Debian: DSA 754-1 Urgent: Gedit Format String Denial Of Service
debian
July 12, 2005
A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit, a light-weight text editor for GNOME, that may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a bi...
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.3-4sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.10.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gedit 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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 1848 99c4beadcf902ee5857c7a3150f4d0ad
Size/MD5 checksum: 54443 96de2c7d0d757d867f46d36490e0ee92
Size/MD5 checksum: 4051445 cbbd5999141d6de932a0afdd55f1aa35
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1826070 d8519...
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