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Debian DSA 1093-1 Critical: xine-ui format string DoS risk

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2006
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Debian DSA 1094-1 resolves vulnerabilities in vim that could be exploited for remote code execution on both stable and unstable releases.
Several format string vulnerabilities have been discovered in xine-ui, the user interface of the xine video player, which may cause a denial of service.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.99.3-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your xine-ui 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 at the end of this advisory:

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: 746 527be88be68d5710bf5e0a5b09ffc839
Size/MD5 checksum: 1288 64415eeb7634cc0dca6d7a44e7a8f404
Size/MD5 checksum: 2610080 aa7805a93e511e3d67dc1bf09a71fcdd

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 check...

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