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Debian: DSA 1179-1 Critical: alsaplayer Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2006
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The advisory from Debian discusses a vulnerability in alsaplayer related to a buffer overflow, which may lead to program termination. It includes guidance for performing the necessary updates.
Updated package.

Summary


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

We recommend that you upgrade your alsaplayer 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: 1141 eff945b0eaa70c5106bb55a84293d21b
Size/MD5 checksum: 71698 da1c186e90ee418b1e11d5cfee54442f
Size/MD5 checksum: 795398 ff78654c9ab74d14ad218dfb226db0a4

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1008 3886803356b57c4a4fcc9dacd72d5a85
Size/MD5 checksum: 5348 0738a0a...

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