Debian: DSA 1166-1 Critical Security Flaw Found in LibX11 Package
debian
September 1, 2006
Lionel Elie Mamane discovered a security vulnerability in capi4hylafax, tools for faxing over a CAPI 2.0 device, that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the f...
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 01.03.00.99.svn.300-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your capi4hylafax 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: 700 ed2b42302da19f397f54be5b6ab2c70d
Size/MD5 checksum: 233973 cb882036840592b6365e890ba2bef034
Size/MD5 checksum: 400508 8236290d6b880ee7d5e2fe970648ad6f
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 269704 e89fb2126460ebf99fabd817ccc135e1
AMD64 archite...
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