Debian: DSA-1430-1 Critical: glibc Memory Corruption Vulnerability
debian
July 5, 2007
Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that
gfax, a GHOME frontend for fax programs, uses temporary files in an
unsafe manner which may be exploited to exec...
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Summary
The stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.
The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected by this problem.
We recommend that you upgrade your gfax 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 below:
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
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 396636 815523780287a97133e85585f0319a20
Size/MD5 checksum: 14946 7393373a40448daf52e4b64ff1d4f6a7
Size/MD5 checksum: 632 ed841ab6349ff80527cb49fb1fc6595f
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 125376 57c5e15d94699b99fabbf4f692df667e
amd6...
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