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Debian 3.1 DSA 1100-1 Critical: Wv2 Integer Overflow Impact

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2006
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Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.2.2-1sarge1

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libwv 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 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: 647 1e70762ab53a672f05164a004f5c93a9
Size/MD5 checksum: 12720 068c3fbeb3965747027fe1382dcb55a5
Size/MD5 checksum: 855198 45fdc6df614f91e94d3b978dd8414e3b

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 2...

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