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Debian Sarge: DSA 797-1 Critical: Zsync DoS Issue Fixed

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2005
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To address the buffer overflow vulnerability in Debian's zsync package, update it by running specific terminal commands to enhance security and avoid DoS risks
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.3.3-1.sarge.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.0-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your zsync 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: 742 38abbfacbf93f57692641a0f257abe4e
Size/MD5 checksum: 6213 224eae057a1eebdd3ffe16e6e3d584e6
Size/MD5 checksum: 241726 71efef80525276990cf8af97ee2b8f97

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 120612...

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