Debian: DSA-919-1 Critical: Curl Buffer Overflow Threat

A vulnerability has been discovered a buffer overflow in libcurl
that could allow the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2005-4077

Stefan Esser discovered several off-by-one errors that allows
local users to trigger a buffer overflow and cause a denial of
service or bypass PHP security restrictions via certain URLs.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 7.9.5-1woody1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 7.13.2-2sarge4. This update also includes a bugfix against
data corruption.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 7.15.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libcurl 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
...