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Debian: DSA-821-1 Severe: Python2.3 Integer Overflow Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey September 28, 2005
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Keep informed about security notice DSA 821-1 issued by Debian that addresses a significant python vulnerability impacting remote servers.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.5-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.5-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your python2.3 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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1146 c9037ce6cf68a2d5df19f97f5a355682
Size/MD5 checksum: 2351981 7e1a2c22a67933614ae542df35b3acb5
Size/MD5 checksum: 8512566 9c35e5ca3c487e1c1f70f2fb1ccbfffe

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD...

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