Debian: DSA 1180-1 Critical: Bomberclone Remote Programming Threat

The program copies remotely provided data uncheced which could
lead to a denial of service via an application crash.

CVE-2006-4006

Bomberclone uses remotely provided data as length argument which
can lead to the disclosure of private information.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.11.5-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.11.7-0.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your bomberclone 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.


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