Debian: DSA-1368-1 Critical: Librpcsecgss Remote Execution Risk
debian
September 4, 2007
It was discovered that a buffer overflow of the library for secure RPC
communication over the rpcsec_gss protocol allows the execution of
arbitrary code.
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.14-2etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your librpcsecgss 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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 746 253bb12cce7ac18b200108dfcb430b6a
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Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 57274 f14e33d1d2ad...
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