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Debian: DSA 1365-1 Critical: id3lib Denial of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2007
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Uncover the mitigation strategy for id3lib as outlined in Debian security notice DSA 1365-1, provided by Nikolaus Schulz.
Nikolaus Schulz discovered that a programming error in id3lib, an ID3 Tag Library, may lead to denial of service through symlink attacks.

Summary


Due to a technical limitation in the archive management scripts the fix
for the stable distribution (etch) can only be released in a few days.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.8.3-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your id3lib3.8.3 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 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

Size/MD5 checksum: 655 94eda5191994c0dbe0146a85a9e94737
Size/MD5 checksum: 134382 b45300bc3341dbedf90f4c593462794f
Size/MD5 checksum: 950726 19f27ddd2dda4b2d26a559a4f0f402a7

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