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Debian 3.1 DSA 1028-1: Libimager-Perl Critical Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1028-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 7th, 2006 h
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version perl_0.44-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libimager-perl 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: 761 c95db45742a6373bdb2807bf33073141
Size/MD5 checksum: 2786 7ae8aa675c1b894683bc15ac971c7db8
Size/MD5 checksum: 586239 0e4f53fb78473f5f8b554b112b92002d

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum:...

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