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Debian 3.1 DSA 767-1 Critical: EKG Integer Overflow Remediation

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2005
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Urgent notice regarding integer overflow vulnerabilities in EKG libraries addressing remote code execution risks for Debian system administrators.
Updated package.

Summary


The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain an ekg package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5+20050411-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5+20050718+1.6rc3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ekg 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: 755 0a4dd15d5f23220c73d696d62265c1d4
Size/MD5 checksum: 41235 8669470feccbca9de2ac450552d6eb71
Size/MD5 checksum: 495079 bc24677...

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